An 18-year-old woman died early Tuesday after being shot in the head inside a residence near Beekman Street and Baltimore Avenue in North Fairmount, in what Cincinnati police described as an apparent accidental shooting. Officers responded to the scene around 1 a.m., and the Cincinnati Police Department's Homicide Unit was sent to investigate.
According to cincinnati.com, the shooting happened inside a residence, and police said the woman died in what appeared to be an accidental shooting. Police are now searching for a man considered a person of interest in the case, according to WLWT, which reported that police described the shooting as stemming from an apparent accidental horseplay incident involving a gun.
Conflicting Accounts of Who Police Are Questioning
Accounts differ on how many people investigators have been speaking with at the scene. The station's report says officials were speaking with two people at the scene whose involvement in the incident remains unclear, while cincinnati.com reported that police were talking to just one person assisting the investigation as they searched for a person of interest. Officers are treating the case as a homicide investigation, and homicide investigators were expected to remain at the scene for a while as they worked the case.
No arrests or charges have been reported, and the circumstances surrounding the gun involved have not been detailed beyond the apparent accidental and horseplay-related characterizations attributed to police. The identity of the woman who died has not been released in the available reporting, nor has the person of interest been named.
Second North Fairmount Shooting in Weeks
The Tuesday shooting marks the second fatal shooting reported in North Fairmount in recent weeks. A 28-year-old man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in the neighborhood on the morning of Oct. 19, per a separate cincinnati.com report. Police said at the time that no suspect information had been released in that earlier case, and the available reporting does not connect the two shootings or establish a broader pattern in the neighborhood.
Cincinnati police have not released further details about either case as the investigations continue.
