Overview
- Police say two people were wounded outside the CityBird restaurant around 7:30 p.m., with a teen grazed in the leg and an adult shot in the thigh; both sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
- Investigators reported two CityBird windows were shot out during a fight, and the victims were taken to Cincinnati Children’s and University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
- Two people of interest are in custody, including one caught after a foot chase and another found in Over-the-Rhine, with no charges announced yet.
- Mayor Aftab Pureval called the violence intolerable and is seeking changes to policing and management of the downtown transit hub, including a potential earlier curfew specific to Fountain Square.
- A separate Westwood shooting around 6:30 p.m. left a man dead, and two additional shootings were reported later in the West End and by a man who arrived at Mercy Health, with both of those victims expected to survive.