Cincinnati has been rocked by a spate of violence that left one man dead and several others injured in a series of shootings across the city. In the early hours of today, at around 12:30 a.m., a man was fatally shot at the intersection of McGregor and Reading in Mount Auburn. The Hamilton County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 33-year-old Roberto Pittman, as reported by LOCAL12. Police have not provided details on a suspect or the motive behind the shooting.
According to FOX19, this incident was one among four shootings that occurred within a time span that had officers scrambling from one crime scene to the next. An officer was heard saying on the police radio, “Ma’am, we’re going from shooting to shooting.” Homicide investigators were called to the scene outside a Shell gas station after the incident, confirming Pittman's death and the injury of a second victim who later showed up at a hospital. The status of the investigation and details about the suspect remain undisclosed.
The violence continued across the city with shootings reported in various neighborhoods. In English Woods, a woman was shot at Shelton Gardens Apartments on Westwood Northern Boulevard around 4 a.m., this location reportedly witnessed the killing of a 22-year-old woman less than a month prior. The police swiftly responded, and a temporary closure affected Westwood Northern Boulevard between Sutter Avenue and Beekman Street before reopening later.
Adding to the night's unrest, another shooting occurred in Walnut Hills, happening approximately 30 minutes after a separate incident in Hanna Park, Over-the-Rhine, which resulted in two hospitalizations, one being for life-threatening injuries. WLWT details that the Walnut Hills shooting left one person dead and another hospitalized, both incidents are under investigation by Cincinnati's Criminal Investigation Section, with no immediate indication of a connection between the two.
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