As investigators look into questions about what led to a mass shooting in Smale Park, new crime cameras were going up Tuesday that could have provided some of those answers.The shooting rang out just after Fourth of July fireworks on Sunday. Five teenagers were hit, two were killed.Police said Milo Watson, 16 and Dexter Wright Jr., 19 were apparently trying to kill each other and both succeeded.Some details about what happened are still unclear. Police have not said who they believe pulled a weapon first or what happened to the guns after the shooting.“We have not recovered any firearms,” said Cincinnati police Chief Eliot Isaac.There were no crime cameras in the area where the shooting began to help sort out the details until now.Crews are putting up the first two of 10 new cameras planned for Smale Park.The plan to put the cameras in the park has been the works since problems started to show up on police radar about a year ago.The cameras will be part of the Real Time Crime camera network of more than 200 cameras across the city. The cameras are monitored and recorded by Cincinnati Police 24 hours a day, seven days a week.The two newest cameras are going up in the area where the shooting began. Park workers said the cameras were supposed to go up last Thursday, but were delayed by weather.
As investigators look into questions about what led to a mass shooting in Smale Park, new crime cameras were going up Tuesday that could have provided some of those answers.
The shooting rang out just after Fourth of July fireworks on Sunday. Five teenagers were hit, two were killed.
Police said Milo Watson, 16 and Dexter Wright Jr., 19 were apparently trying to kill each other and both succeeded.
Some details about what happened are still unclear. Police have not said who they believe pulled a weapon first or what happened to the guns after the shooting.
“We have not recovered any firearms,” said Cincinnati police Chief Eliot Isaac.
There were no crime cameras in the area where the shooting began to help sort out the details until now.
Crews are putting up the first two of 10 new cameras planned for Smale Park.
The plan to put the cameras in the park has been the works since problems started to show up on police radar about a year ago.
The cameras will be part of the Real Time Crime camera network of more than 200 cameras across the city. The cameras are monitored and recorded by Cincinnati Police 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The two newest cameras are going up in the area where the shooting began.
Park workers said the cameras were supposed to go up last Thursday, but were delayed by weather.
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