An overnight drive-by shooting in Cincinnati is the latest in a deadly stretch of gun violence across the city.The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Friday on Paddock Road. According to police, two people were inside of a vehicle driving southbound on Paddock Road, when three bullets crashed through their windshield. A 21-year-old man inside of the car was wounded in the gunfire. A woman was uninjured. Officials said that car continued to drive for a short distance, stopping near a nearby Dairy Queen on Vine Street to call for help. The victim was taken to University of Cincinnati Hospital, with what police are calling non-life-threatening injuries. There are two crime scenes: One where the shots were reportedly fired in the Bond Hill area, and the second in St. Bernard. Cincinnati police are leading the investigation. Friday’s shooting is the latest in a stretch of gun violence across the city. It happened just hours after a 19-year-old man was shot in the head in Cincinnati’s Winton Hills neighborhood. It also comes amid outcry from a July 4 shooting in the city’s Smale Riverfront Park, where five people were shot, two fatally. City and federal official announced a renewed effort earlier this week to crack down on gun violence. On Thursday, federal officials announced that 16 people have been arrested and charged with federal gun crimes in a third wave of federal cases filed as part of the city’s initiative to reduce gun violence. Authorities hope to reduce the level of violence by taking more of the bad actors off the streets, lessening their negative influence on susceptible teens. Since last September, more than 50 felons have been arrested in the city for gun crimes. The spike in teen shootings like the ones at Smale this month, last month and the one before has rattled city leadership at a time when overall violent crime is less than it was a year ago."And while we're still unacceptably high, we are trending in the right direction when most major American cities are going even higher," noted Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley.However, the city is awash in illegal guns. Police are taking on average of 115 a month off the streets."They're stolen from cars, they're stolen from businesses. People purchase them legally, then pass them on," said Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac.
An overnight drive-by shooting in Cincinnati is the latest in a deadly stretch of gun violence across the city.
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Friday on Paddock Road.
According to police, two people were inside of a vehicle driving southbound on Paddock Road, when three bullets crashed through their windshield.
A 21-year-old man inside of the car was wounded in the gunfire. A woman was uninjured.
Officials said that car continued to drive for a short distance, stopping near a nearby Dairy Queen on Vine Street to call for help.
The victim was taken to University of Cincinnati Hospital, with what police are calling non-life-threatening injuries.
There are two crime scenes: One where the shots were reportedly fired in the Bond Hill area, and the second in St. Bernard. Cincinnati police are leading the investigation.
Friday’s shooting is the latest in a stretch of gun violence across the city. It happened just hours after a 19-year-old man was shot in the head in Cincinnati’s Winton Hills neighborhood.
It also comes amid outcry from a July 4 shooting in the city’s Smale Riverfront Park, where five people were shot, two fatally.
City and federal official announced a renewed effort earlier this week to crack down on gun violence.
On Thursday, federal officials announced that 16 people have been arrested and charged with federal gun crimes in a third wave of federal cases filed as part of the city’s initiative to reduce gun violence. Authorities hope to reduce the level of violence by taking more of the bad actors off the streets, lessening their negative influence on susceptible teens.
Since last September, more than 50 felons have been arrested in the city for gun crimes. The spike in teen shootings like the ones at Smale this month, last month and the one before has rattled city leadership at a time when overall violent crime is less than it was a year ago.
"And while we're still unacceptably high, we are trending in the right direction when most major American cities are going even higher," noted Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley.
However, the city is awash in illegal guns. Police are taking on average of 115 a month off the streets.
"They're stolen from cars, they're stolen from businesses. People purchase them legally, then pass them on," said Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac.
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