It’s been a brutal week of gun violence in Ohio with eight dead and ten injured:
- A 14-year-old Columbus boy died in a shooting near an area mall.
- The man charged with shooting three young Toledo brothers (one, four and five-years old) was indicted by the Lucas County Grand Jury this week. Only the four-year-old survived the shooting but was critically injured.
- A Cleveland man was shot and killed at a west side gas station by two men who robbed then shot him.
- Three men in a barbershop in Euclid, Ohio (near Cleveland) were injured in a drive-by shooting in which “dozens of shots” were fired.
- Earlier that same day in Strongsville, Ohio, a mother and her two daughters were shot and injured in a drive-by shooting.
- A Cleveland man in a reported domestic violence incident in which he had a gun died after pulling his gun on the police officer.
- A juvenile in Stark County was shot multiple times and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
- A store owner in Madeira, near Cincinnati, was shot and killed during a robbery – this same man was shot in another robbery at his store in 2012.
- A 33-year-old woman from Goshen, OH was shot and killed across the border in northern Kentucky.
- A 38-year-old Columbus man was shot and injured during an attempted carjacking at a gas station in the early morning. Within 10 minutes there was another shooting at a nearby gas station – a 79-year-old man who was critically injured
- A man in the Franklinton area of Columbus died Thursday after being shot when a fight ensued in an area store earlier in the week.