Overview

• Sen. Bernie Moreno released detailed images of Holly’s severe facial injuries with her consent to spotlight the attack’s brutality.
• Moreno gave Cincinnati leaders 30 days to propose reforms addressing police staffing shortages and bail practices or face possible federal funding cuts.
• Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge confirmed that five individuals, including Montianez Merriweather, Dekyra Vernon and Jermaine Matthews, have been charged with felonious assault and aggravated riot.
• The FBI has opened a hate-crime investigation to determine whether racial bias motivated the downtown street brawl.
• Holly, a single working mother, has returned to Russia for recovery amid disputed claims from the attackers’ families that the national outrage reflects her race rather than the violence.