Cincinnati police were called to Hackberry Street in East Walnut Hills around 4:45 a.m. Saturday after reports of a shooting near Purcell Marian High School, and as of early Sunday, officers had not said what happened or whether anyone was hurt.
Cincinnati Police are investigating the shooting, according to Local 12, which reported that officers responded to the Hackberry Street address near the high school at that early hour. The station noted that police have not released any information on what happened at this time, leaving basic questions about injuries, a possible suspect, or an arrest unanswered for now.
A Street With a Painful History
The Hackberry Street address sits in a stretch of East Walnut Hills and neighboring Evanston that has seen gun violence before. In an earlier case on the 3000 block of Hackberry Street, a man identified as 30-year-old Travis D. Clark was pronounced dead at the scene after a shooting around 5:19 p.m., according to the same outlet's prior report. It is not known whether that earlier shooting has any connection to Saturday's incident, and nothing in the current reporting ties the two together.
Purcell Marian High School has its own painful link to neighborhood gun violence. A shooting outside the nearby Melrose YMCA killed 17-year-old Purcell Marian student Kelsie Crow and wounded two others, the station's report noted. Witnesses described a group of about 15 teenagers gathered when several people opened fire, and prosecutors said 28 rounds were scattered into the crowd, according to the same account.
Part of a Rough Stretch for the Neighborhood
Saturday's shooting adds to a string of gunfire reports across Walnut Hills and East Walnut Hills this year. In August, a shooting at the Alexandra Apartments on William Howard Taft Road left residents waking to bullet holes, though police said no one was injured; officers located 37 shell casings at the scene, per FOX19. That outlet reported police had originally been called to the building because a woman was threatening self-harm, and the woman suspected in the shooting was later charged with felonious assault and improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation.
In June, officers responded around 1:30 a.m. to the intersection of East McMillan Street and Victory Parkway, where one person was taken to a hospital for injuries, WLWT reported. Earlier in the year, a man was fatally shot in Walnut Hills in May, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, and a man was reported dead after a separate shooting in the neighborhood in July, per a prior WLWT account.
No information has been confirmed about who fired shots near Hackberry Street and Purcell Marian High School Saturday morning, or whether the incident resulted in any injuries. Police have not said whether a suspect is in custody, and this story will be updated if investigators release further details.
