Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority detectives are investigating a shooting that left a man wounded in the leg and ended with officers chasing down and arresting an armed boy near West 28th Street and Washington Avenue Thursday afternoon. Officers who responded to the sound of gunfire found a group of males scattering as they arrived — but one of them didn't get away.
CMHA officers responded to the intersection around 1:30 p.m. Thursday after hearing shots fired in the area, according to Cleveland 19 News. As officers approached, a group of males took off running, and officers caught and arrested one boy who was armed, per the outlet's reporting.
Officers then found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. They administered first aid until EMS arrived and transported the man to MetroHealth, the station reported.
Part of a Troubling Pattern Near CMHA Properties
Thursday's shooting is not the first to draw CMHA police attention to housing authority grounds. In August 2025, CMHA police launched an investigation after two people were shot near an apartment building at 6201 Haltnorth Walk in Cleveland, according to a separate Cleveland 19 News report. In that incident, a man was shot in the calf and a woman in the shoulder, and both were expected to recover; the report noted there was no word on arrests at the time and that the shooting remained under investigation.
A shooting near CMHA housing in Cleveland's Central neighborhood turned deadly, according to WKYC, which reported that a 16-year-old boy died at MetroHealth Medical Center while a 15-year-old boy was taken to UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in serious condition.
Youth Gun Violence Rising Even as Overall Shootings Fall
The pattern of young people turning up armed or injured in Cleveland shootings tracks with county-level data. Since 2021, shooting and homicide numbers have declined throughout Cleveland overall, according to Ohio Capital Journal. But shooting homicide deaths among people under 18 in Cuyahoga County more than tripled since 2010, climbing to 18 in 2023, the outlet reported, and the county's youth firearm homicide rate jumped four points between 2018 and 2023.
A Cuyahoga County Board of Health report cited in that reporting found overall child fatalities reached a five-year high in 2023, with firearms accounting for 19% of them. Cuyahoga's 2023 youth firearm homicide death rate stood at 7 per 100,000 youth residents, more than 30% higher than in three comparable counties, per the same account. Cleveland itself is responsible for around 75% of all homicides countywide, and a gun is used in over 80% of them, according to the outlet.
No further details on the condition of the man taken to MetroHealth or the identity of the arrested boy have been released. CMHA detectives continue to investigate Thursday's shooting.
