A shooting on Woodland Avenue in Cleveland left one woman dead and another with a graze wound.
According to The Cleveland, Ohio Remembrance Page, CMHA police were on scene near the address, and the post states that three juveniles were in custody. The same post reports that one juvenile was reportedly found with a gun, and that the three juveniles were wearing hospital masks at the time. None of those details — the number of juveniles, the recovered firearm, or the masks — have been independently confirmed by an official police or court source, and Hoodline is relaying them only as reported in that post.
It remains unclear whether this incident is connected to a separate Woodland Avenue shooting reported by a local television station. That report described a 13-year-old girl shot three times and hospitalized, with the Cleveland Division of Police saying the shooting happened around 5:25 p.m. on a Tuesday in the 7700 block of Woodland Avenue — several blocks from the address cited in the Facebook post. The girl reportedly suffered gunshot wounds to her stomach, arm and hand and was in surgery in critical condition, and police said they quickly identified and arrested one male in connection with that shooting, per WKYC.
A Street With a Troubled History
Woodland Avenue has seen gun violence before. A low-confidence cleveland.com search result, dated to a 2017 incident, described three people shot on the same street, with a juvenile taken to University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and adults shot closer to East 89th Street — a reminder that the corridor has a long history with gunfire, even though that older report should not be read as describing this week's shooting.
Youth Gun Violence Remains a Concern Countywide
The broader backdrop is a mixed one. Shooting and homicide numbers have declined across Cleveland since 2021, but children and teenagers continue to face elevated risk from firearms in Cuyahoga County, according to The Trace. The county recorded 18 shooting-homicide deaths among people under 18 in 2023, more than triple the number from 2010, and the youth firearm homicide rate reached 7 per 100,000 youth residents that year — four points higher than in 2018. A Cuyahoga County Board of Health report also found that overall child fatalities hit a five-year high in 2023, with firearms accounting for 19 percent of them, the outlet reported. Cleveland alone accounts for roughly 75 percent of homicides countywide, and guns are used in more than 80 percent of them.
There has been some improvement more recently. Nineteen teenagers were charged in Cuyahoga County homicide cases in 2025, involving 18 victims across 17 incidents — down sharply from 2024, when 41 teens were charged in connection with 31 deaths across 29 incidents, cleveland.com reported. That marks a steep drop from 2023, when 43 teenage suspects were charged in cases involving 33 victims across 30 incidents. Firearms were used in nearly all of those incidents, the outlet noted, and officials cautioned that youth violence extends well beyond homicide totals to include gun violence, stolen vehicles, large teen gatherings that turn violent, and a growing number of firearms ending up in juveniles' hands.
In response to the broader trend, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announced the Neighborhood Safety Fund in 2023, allocating $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act money toward violence-prevention grants, per The Trace. Cuyahoga County's youth firearm homicide rate in 2023 was still more than 30 percent higher than comparable rates in Allegheny, Franklin and Wayne counties, underscoring how far the numbers have to fall.
