A 14-year-old is facing felonious assault and evidence tampering charges after a man was shot and seriously injured yesterday morning in Colerain Township, according to police. The shooting happened around 9:30 a.m. in the 3200 block of Nandale Drive, and the teenager, identified as a family member of the victim, was arrested shortly afterward.
According to WLWT, the wounded man was first driven by the 14-year-old to Mercy Health - West Hospital in neighboring Green Township before being transferred to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for further treatment. Police say the man suffered serious injuries. The Green Township hospital sits just south of Colerain Township, and UC Medical Center operates Greater Cincinnati's only Level I adult trauma center, a facility equipped with a newly expanded 41,000-square-foot emergency department for advanced surgical and critical trauma care.
Teen Booked at Youth Center Amid Ongoing Investigation
The teenager was taken to the Hamilton County Juvenile Court Youth Center, the outlet reported, a secure county detention facility at 2020 Auburn Avenue in Cincinnati that holds pre-adjudicated juveniles facing felony-level offenses. Colerain Township police are continuing to investigate what led to the shooting, and it remains unclear what sparked the confrontation or how the teen came to have access to a firearm.
Under Ohio Revised Code Section 2903.11, felonious assault is a second-degree felony that can carry a prison term of two to eight years and fines up to $15,000 for adult offenders, requiring prosecutors to establish that a defendant knowingly caused serious physical harm or used a deadly weapon. The tampering with evidence charge, brought under Ohio Revised Code Section 2921.12, is a third-degree felony that applies when someone alters, destroys, or conceals items to impair an official investigation, and carries up to 36 months in prison for an adult.
Why the Teen Likely Won't Face Automatic Adult Charges
Because the suspect is 14, Ohio's juvenile transfer statutes place the case on a discretionary bindover track rather than automatic mandatory transfer to adult court. Mandatory bindover generally applies only to older teens between 16 and 17 charged with specific category-one or category-two offenses, meaning a judge would have to decide whether to move this case out of juvenile court at all.
The Hamilton County Youth Detention Center, where the teen is being held, was recently awarded the national Barbara Allen-Hagen Award for its behavioral intervention and de-escalation programs, including what the facility says was Ohio's first multi-sensory de-escalation room inside a juvenile detention facility, introduced in 2025.
Another Violent Incident on the Same Block
Yesterday's shooting marks the second violent crime investigation on the same stretch of Nandale Drive in recent months. The 3200 block was the site of a fatal stabbing outside the Prime at White Oak apartment complex in January, which led to murder and evidence-tampering charges against two adults, according to the Colerain Township Police Department.
Colerain Township, the most populous township in Hamilton County with roughly 59,000 residents spread across 43.2 square miles, has seen a string of recent gun-related juvenile arrests. Police there arrested a teen murder suspect during a shots-fired investigation in July and two 17-year-olds on active warrants in late 2025, according to WLWT. Open questions remain about what triggered yesterday's shooting, what evidence the teen is accused of tampering with, and whether prosecutors will eventually seek to move the case to adult court.
