Shots fired from outside a Corryville Kroger shattered two second-floor windows Friday evening, sending Cincinnati police to the store just before 6 p.m. No customers or employees inside were hurt, and investigators have not said whether they have identified anyone responsible.
According to WLWT, Cincinnati Police said officers were called to the scene after shots were fired at the store. Officers who responded found the two broken windows on the building's second floor, and police said the gunfire had come from outside rather than inside the Kroger. No injuries were reported to anyone inside the store, according to the same report.
Investigation Still Open, No Suspect Named
The investigation into Friday's shooting remains ongoing, and police have not said whether anyone has been identified as a suspect, per the station's report. Beyond the broken windows and the timing of the 911 call, few other details about the incident have been released.
This is not the first time gunfire has struck a Kroger in the area. In a separate incident, University of Cincinnati Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert at 2:38 p.m. on Nov. 25, 2025, after shots were fired at the Kroger at 60 William Howard Taft Road, according to The News Record. Police said a window at that store was shot out, though no injuries were reported. Police radio traffic in that case indicated surveillance footage showed a possible male suspect in an orange hoodie fleeing west on Corry Street near a nearby Walgreens, the outlet reported, though the available evidence does not establish any connection between that incident and Friday's shooting.
A Pattern of Gunfire Near Kroger Stores
Cincinnati-area Kroger locations have seen other gunfire incidents over the past couple of years, though nothing ties them directly to what happened Friday. A bullet once flew through a window at the Kroger on Court Street in downtown Cincinnati on a Thursday evening, with police at the scene saying the shots had hit a T-shirt rack inside the store, WLWT reported separately. And a report from FOX19 described a man found shot outside a Corryville Kroger with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound that was possibly self-inflicted.
None of those earlier incidents has been linked to Friday's shooting, and police have released no information about a motive or a suspect description in the current case. The investigation remains active, and Cincinnati Police have not indicated when an update might be available.
