A predawn 911 call about a man screaming that he had been stabbed in the 1920 block of Catalpa Avenue in North College Hill touched off hours of searching with drones and a tracking dog early Monday, but the suspect got away on foot. Officers arrived within four minutes and found a male victim inside a neighboring home with a deep shoulder laceration before rushing him to the hospital.
Dispatchers received the call around 4:06 a.m. Monday reporting the man outside in the 1920 block of Catalpa Avenue, according to FOX19. North College Hill police officers arrived within four minutes of the call, per a computer-aided dispatch report cited by the station. Inside a neighboring house, officers located the victim with a deep laceration to his shoulder, and he was transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for treatment.
A Resident's Tip Leads Police on a Foot-Chase Hunt
About 25 minutes after the initial call, a resident on nearby Emerson Avenue told dispatch that a thin man wearing a white shirt had been in a backyard, said he had just stabbed someone, and then ran off on foot. That tip, relayed in the same FOX19 report, set off the broader search that followed.
Hamilton County dispatched a K-9 tracking unit and launched two aerial search drones to try to locate the man, the station's report states. Search teams found a cell phone in a backyard during the effort, but both the drones and the K-9 unit cleared the immediate perimeter after turning up nothing more, according to the same CAD report.
Investigation Continues as a Felonious Assault
Investigators are treating the incident as a felonious assault, per the outlet's account. No arrests had been officially announced as of the report, and the case remains under active investigation.
The Catalpa Avenue stabbing adds to a string of recent violence in North College Hill. WLWT separately reported a stabbing in the 1700 block of Bising Avenue around 5 a.m. on an earlier Friday morning, in which dispatch said the victim was up and walking despite the unknown extent of his injuries. That outlet reported it was unclear what led to the Bising Avenue attack, underscoring how often these overnight incidents leave more questions than answers in their immediate aftermath.
