A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed blocks from TQL Stadium in the West End Sunday night, police confirmed.
After responding to the 700 block of Betton Street at around 10:45 p.m., members of the Cincinnati Fire Department began treating two gunshot victims.
One of the victims, 15-year-old Jerome Lipscomb III, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said in a news release Monday.
No information about any suspects was released. Police asked anyone with information about the killing to call the Cincinnati Police homicide unit at 513-352-3542.
Jerome, who was an eighth-grader, was a member of the junior high school football team at Robert A. Taft Informational Technology High School, the school's football coach, Tyler Williams, confirmed. The school also is only a few blocks from where Jerome was killed.
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