Police close Zoar Road in Maineville after car goes off road into creek

VERSUS WADE LAST WEEK WELL A MAN WHO SCALDED A WOMAN AND HER 16 MONTH OLD SON WITH BOILING VEGETABLE OIL NOW IS GOING TO SPEND NEARLY 40 YEARS IN PRISON, AND WE SHOULD WARN YOU HERE SOME OF THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED DURING MICHAEL MALONEY’S TRIAL INCLUDING PICTURES OF THE BOY’S INJURIES. VERY GRAPHIC HERE WLWT. NEWSWISE, TODD -- LIVE FORESTS IN HAMILTON WITH TODAY’S VERDICT AND MALONEY’S PRISON SENTENCE. HI TODD. HI, CHERIE, AND MIKE. YEAH, THE BURNS THAT JAYLA WITT. YOUNG SON SUFFERED BACK IN DECEMBER JUST BRUTAL. THE INJURIES HAPPENED AFTER WHIT’S COUSIN BROKE INTO HER HOME HERE IN HAMILTON AND TODAY AT GUILTY VERDICT FOR THE MAN RESPONSIBLE AND A TONGUE LASHING FROM THE JUDGE. ON A COLD DAY IN LATE DECEMBER SECURITY FOOTAGE SHOWS MICHAEL MALONEY BUYING VEGETABLE OIL AT A KROGER STORE IN HAMILTON JURORS, SO THAT VIDEO AND MORE EVIDENCE DURING MALONEY’S TRIAL WHICH ENDED TODAY WITH A CONVICTION. THIS WAS A PREMEDITATED. THINK ABOUT ACT THAT ON MANY LEVELS IF NOT ALL LEVELS SUGGEST THAT YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE A HUMAN BEING. JUDGE GREG STEVENS CALLED WHAT MALONEY DID SADISTIC YOU SIR? OR AN ANIMAL PROSECUTORS SAY MALONEY BROKE INTO THE HOME OF A SECOND COUSIN JAYLA WITT ONCE INSIDE. HE BROUGHT A PAN OF THE VEGETABLE OIL. HE BOUGHT TO A BOIL THEN CLIMBED 17 STAIRS AND DOUSED WITH THE OIL. SHE WAS SLEEPING WITH HER LITTLE BOY. THE CHILD WAS ALSO BURNED SHE CALLED YOU UNCLE MIKE DIDN’T SHE? CALLED YOU UNCLE MIKE AND THIS IS WHAT SHE GETS MALONEY’S MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME REMAINS A MYSTERY. JAYLA WITT’S DAD SAID SHE WAS TRYING TO GIVE MALONEY A HAND UP IN LIFE WHEN THE INCIDENT HAPPENED PROSECUTOR BRAD BURRIS READ A NOTE WRITTEN BY JAYLA WITT WHO IS TOO ILL TO RETURN TO THE COURTROOM TO HEAR TODAY’S VERDICT READ ALOUD. ALL I ASK IS WHY I’VE NEVER I’VE NEVER BEEN NOTHING, BUT GOOD TO YOU. WHICH FATHER SUGGESTED MALONEY WAS OVERCOME BY DARKNESS? TOLD LOSER WITH THAT. THANK YOU. THANK THIS COURT EVERYTHING ELSE. NOW SHORTLY AFTER THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON JUDGE STEVENS SENTENCED MALONEY TO 37 YEARS IN PRISON THAT INCLUDES 27 YEARS FOR THE THREE COUNTS THAT HE FACED IN THIS CASE AND 10 YEARS FOR HAVING PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF A VIOLENT CRIME REPORTING LIVE TONIGHT IN HAMILTON TODD -- WLWT NEWS 5 TODD IT IS SO DISTURBING IN A LETTER TO THE COURT THOUGH THAT VICTIM JAYLA WITT SAID SHE DECIDED TO FORGIVE MALONEY BECAUSE SHE AND HER SON. RESERVE TO FIND PEACE WITH WHAT HAPPENED. WELL A MAN ACCUSED OF BEATING A WOMAN FOR HOURS FACED A JUDGE TODAY ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS TO WAD SMITH REPEATEDLY PUNCHED THE VICTIM FOR NEARLY FOUR HOURS BACK IN MARCH. THE VICTIM SAYS THAT SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH TWINS AND THE ATTACK CAUSED HER TO MISCARRY. THE SUSPECT IS ALSO ACCUSED OF CRASHING A STOLEN CAR WHILE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM POLICE YESTERDAY SMITH FACES A LIST OF CHARGES INCLUDING FELONIOUS ASSAULT KIDNAPPING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND AWFUL RESTRAINT HE’S BEING HELD ON A 117,000 BOND A MAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING ANOTHER MAN IN THE WEST END APPEARED IN COURT THIS MORNING. POLICE. SAY 36 YEAR OLD DARNELL NELSON SHOT 67 YEAR OLD WALTER MERTZ JR. IN AN ALLEY ALONG LINN STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY MERITS DIED THERE ON THE SCENE NEIGHBORS TOLD POLICE NELSON RAN INTO A HOUSE ALONG DAYTON STREET THAT ENDED UP PROMPTING A SWAT SITUATION AND ENDED UP NOT BEING INSIDE THAT HOUSE NELSON THOUGH BEING HELD NOW. MILLION DOLLARS BOND POLICE FOUND HIM SOMEWHERE ELSE THIS BY THE WAY WAS THE SECOND SHOOTING IN THAT AREA WITHIN 24 HOURS PERSON HAS HEARD AFTER A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE WESTWOOD AREA CINCINNATI POLICE TELLINGS THAT HAPPENED ABOUT NINE THIS MORNING AT THE RAVENWOOD APARTMENTS ON WESTWOOD NORTHERN BOULEVARD. WE’RE TOLD THAT ONE PERSON WAS SHOT TAKEN TO UC MEDICAL CENTER. THE VICTIMS INJURIES ARE NOT LIFE-THREATENING NEW TONIGHT ON WLWT. A MOTORCYCLE IS DEAD AFTER A CRASH IN COLERAIN TOWNSHIP LAST NIGHT. THIS ALL HAPPENED ALONG BLUE ROCK ROAD. JUST BEFORE ABOUT 11 O’CLOCK POLICE SAY THE MOTORCYCLE HAS WENT LEFT TO CENTER THEN HIT A GUARDRAIL THE DRIVER DIED THERE AT THE SCENE SO FAR. NO OTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RELEASED ABOUT THIS CRASH. WELL RETURN TO NORMAL AFTER A BUILDING COLLAPSE SHUTS DOWN A STREETCAR ROUTE, RIGHT? SO THE IMPACT THE CLOSURE HAD ON THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED THERE IN THAT AREA KEVIN AND WE’RE TRACKING SOME POP-UP DOWNPOURS AROUND THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IT MAY NOT BE RAINING IN YOUR SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THAT’S NOT TO SAY YOU WON’T ENCOUNTER ANY TONIGHT. SO I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHICH AREA IS STAYING THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING RAINED ON AFTER THE BREAK. YO

Police close Zoar Road in Maineville after car goes off road into creek

Updated: 6:25 PM EDT Jul 1, 2022

A car has run off the road and into a creek in Maineville after a crash, Friday evening.Click the video player above to watch other evening headlines from WLWT News 5.Police reported the crash on Zoar Road between Eagle Court and Talon Court at 6:09 p.m.There is no information on the condition of anyone involved with the crash at this time. This story will be updated with the latest information as it comes in

MAINEVILLE, Ohio —

A car has run off the road and into a creek in Maineville after a crash, Friday evening.

Click the video player above to watch other evening headlines from WLWT News 5.

Police reported the crash on Zoar Road between Eagle Court and Talon Court at 6:09 p.m.

There is no information on the condition of anyone involved with the crash at this time.

This story will be updated with the latest information as it comes in