A man was shot late Thursday night on the 3400 block of McFadden Avenue in Westwood, and the person who pulled the trigger was still on the run as of early Friday. The shooting happened around 11 p.m. near 3421 McFadden Avenue, leaving one victim injured and Cincinnati police searching for a suspect who fled the scene.
The shooting was first reported by Local 12, which noted that police are actively searching for the shooting suspect. WKRC also reported that a person was injured in the Thursday night shooting at about 11 p.m. near the McFadden Avenue address. Beyond the location, timing, and the fact that one person was hurt, few other details about the victim's condition or the circumstances of the shooting have been made public.
The stretch of McFadden Avenue where the shooting occurred falls within Cincinnati Police Department District 3, which is headquartered at 2300 Ferguson Road and oversees Westwood along with 17 other west-side communities. The district fields 161 sworn officers and includes a specialized Violent Crimes Squad tasked with investigating exactly this kind of street-level gun violence, according to the Cincinnati Police Department.
Anyone With Information Urged to Come Forward
Residents with information about the shooter's identity or whereabouts can contact CPD District 3 directly at (513) 263-8300. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can instead reach out to Greater Cincinnati / N. Kentucky Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040, where callers are assigned a code rather than a name and may qualify for a cash reward, per Crime Stoppers.
If the suspect is caught, Ohio law lays out a clear framework for what charges could follow. Under Ohio Revised Code §2903.11, firing a weapon and injuring another person is typically prosecuted as felonious assault, a second-degree felony that carries two to eight years in prison and fines up to $15,000, according to the Skip Potter Law Office. That exposure would climb to a first-degree felony carrying up to 11 years if the victim were found to be a law enforcement officer, though nothing in the current reporting suggests that is the case here.
A Familiar Pattern of Gunfire Across Westwood
Thursday's shooting is far from an isolated incident in Westwood, Cincinnati's largest neighborhood by land mass. Just last month, Hoodline reported that a man was left in critical condition following a shooting on Glenway Avenue. In June, a man suffered life-threatening injuries in a drive-by shooting at Westwood Northern Boulevard and Beekman Street after ShotSpotter acoustic technology alerted officers to multiple gunshots, and in April, police investigated another shooting on the 3000 block of McHenry Avenue after a victim showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound.
Safety analytics updated in July ranked Westwood's overall crime index at 140, or 40% higher than the national average, with violent crime tracking roughly 20% above national levels, according to DoorProfit. That same analysis found Westwood is still safer than 19% of Cincinnati neighborhoods, a reminder that crime density varies block by block across the sprawling west-side community.
City's Targeted Policing Push in Gun-Violence Hot Spots
Cincinnati has leaned on data-driven policing to try to blunt these patterns. The department's Place-Based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories strategy, known as PIVOT, targets micro-geographic zones spanning roughly two square blocks that account for outsized shares of gun violence, and it has previously run 90-day enforcement blitzes in Westwood. Department data cited by the National Civic League found that just 1.4% of city land accounted for 42.6% of shooting victims citywide.
The financial toll of that violence is steep. Crime in Westwood carried an estimated economic cost of more than $20.9 million in 2025, with direct victim costs like medical care and lost wages making up 31.2% of that total, according to CrimeGrade.org. For now, the identity and motive of the person who opened fire on McFadden Avenue remain unknown, and it is unclear whether the shooting stemmed from a personal dispute or something connected to broader violence in the neighborhood. Police have not released an update on the victim's medical condition.
