Overview

• Shots rang out shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday during a fight involving about ten young adults at the Cuyahoga County Fair.
• An 18-year-old man was struck in the torso, treated by medics on site, and later transported to a local hospital where he remains hospitalized.
• Middleburg Heights officers stopped a fleeing vehicle and arrested a male occupant found carrying a firearm, who now faces weapons charges.
• The Berea Police Department, with support from Middleburg Heights and Olmsted Township units, is conducting a joint investigation while the fair continues as planned.
• The incident follows last month’s shooting at the Summit County Fair and comes weeks after Ohio’s attorney general ruled that county fairgrounds cannot ban guns.