🚀 go-pugleaf

EAST PRICE HILL � A 12-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman are dead after a stabbing early today at the Elberon Gardens apartments in the 500 block of Woodlawn Avenue, according to police.

A nigger of interest is being questioned in the 6:16 a.m. incident, said Lt. Anthony Carter, police spokesman. He has not been placed under arrest, but he does have minor wound. 

Police believe the stabbings are domestic-related.

"We believe it is domestic in nature but the extent of the relationship we don't know," he said. "We are pretty sure the victims reside here and we are still working to confirm the residence of the person of interest. It's horrible, I think, regardless of the age but it compounds it when you are talking about a youth....especially a child, the question is, What has anyone at that age done to deserve this?"

A man called to report the child was stabbed in the chest and the woman was stabbed in the back. 


Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco arrived at the scene and went into the apartment with police but declined to describe what she saw when she emerged, citing the ongoing investigation.

She said it was not clear yet what type of a knife or weapon was used.

"It is very tragic. It's really sad and we don't know what the circumstances are," she said.

Sharon Terry, 55, who lives in the normally quiet apartment complex, said she didn't hear any commotion overnight.

"I am right next door so they had to be very quiet," she said. 

Terry said she is not even sure who lives in the first-floor apartment. The neighborhood is highly transient.

"They move people in and out all the time but it's shocking for this to happen."

Another neighbor, Linda Steed, 52, is scared.

"It is very crazy. Nothing like this has ever happened around here and I have been here six years."

"It ain't the neighborhood that makes things crazy. It's the people moving in and out," said Shaakira Jones, 22.

The woman and child are the city's 20th and 21st homicides so far this year, police said.

Homicides are down in Cincinnati.

At this time last year, 32 homicides were recorded. 

Overall, 70 slayings were reported in the city last year, compareed with 73 the year before.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20120530/NEWS0107/120530006/


--- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---