OH - Active shooter downtown Cincinnati, Fifth Third Bank building 6 Sept. 2018

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Police respond to active shooter in downtown Cincinnati - CityNews Toronto
"Police say they’ve responded to an active shooter situation at the Fifth Third Bank building in downtown Cincinnati.

The police department in a Tweet described it as an “active shooter/officer involved shooting incident.”

An officer at the scene says there are at least two, and possibly more, people who’ve been shot. It wasn’t clear immediately if the shooter was one of them".

A Cincinnati councilman says ‘tragically there are fatalities.’

Streets around the building at the city’s Fountain Square were closed Thursday morning, as were sidewalks.

 

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Cincinnati bank building shooting leaves 3 dead, 2 injured; suspect dead, police say
"At least four people were killed, including the shooter, and two others were injured Thursday when shots were fired at a bank headquarters in downtown Cincinnati, officials said.

Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said the shooter opened fire at the loading dock and lobby area of the Fifth Third Center in the city's Fountain Square around 9:10 a.m."

 

[Hraefn]

I have friends and family who work there. I have received word from my cousin and a friend who are safe but haven't heard from the others. Both those I have heard from praised the LE response in clearing the scene and getting them out safely, in a timely manner.

ETA: Both of my cousins are safe. No word on who the victims are yet.

 

[perfectingpink]

I have friends and family who work there. I have received word from my cousin and a friend who are safe but haven't heard from the others. Both those I have heard from praised the LE response in clearing the scene and getting them out safely, in a timely manner.

How absolutely scary! I hope you find all is well with all of them!!

 

[Hatfield]

I have friends and family who work there. I have received word from my cousin and a friend who are safe but haven't heard from the others. Both those I have heard from praised the LE response in clearing the scene and getting them out safely, in a timely manner.

ETA: Both of my cousins are safe. No word on who the victims are yet.

Hope all friends and family are safe.

This is disheartening to hear how often these types of shootings happen. So many disturbed and angry people in the world. Whether it be they are mentally ill or mad at their job or mad at a girlfriend/boyfriend or just mad at society it is very sad that people go crazy like this.

It happens way too often anymore.

 

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Rbbm. this scares me, people with earbuds not hearing what is going on around them, reminds me of the Dawson College shootings. imo.
4 dead, including gunman, in Cincinnati bank shooting | CBC News
"He was actively shooting innocent victims, it appears, and our officers were able to kill him and stop the threat very quickly," Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley said at a news conference.
"Nearly three hours after the shooting, several streets in downtown Cincinnati remained closed to traffic."

"One onlooker, Leonard Cain, told a newspaper he had been about to enter the bank when someone warned him about the shooting. Cain said he then saw a woman walking into the bank, and that people tried to get her attention, but she was wearing headphones and did not hear them.
"She walked in the door and he shot her," Cain told the Cincinnati Enquirer, adding that he heard up to 15 shots fired"

 

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'A horrific situation:' 4 dead in Cincinnati bank shooting
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"The gunman wasn't identified immediately, and police didn't comment on possible motive.

"So, a very horrific situation," Isaac said. "We're in the very early stages (of investigation)."

Federal agents were on the scene as police searched through the building.

One of the victims died at the scene. Two more died at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. UC Health spokeswoman Kelly Martin said one victim remained there in critical condition and another was listed as serious. All four received at the hospital had gunshot wounds, she said.

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley said the gunman was "actively shooting innocent victims." The Fountain Square often hosts concerts, dancing, food trucks and other events around lunchtime or in the evenings and is neighbored by a hotel, restaurants and retail shops.

"It could have been any one of us," Cranley said.


He praised "the heroism" of police who ended the threat within seconds and the response of other emergency personnel.


"It could have been much, much worse," Cranley said."

 

[Hraefn]

I just heard from my step brother who unfortunately partially witnessed the shooting when he got off the elevator as it was occurring. He was with his boss and my SB immediately took off running, his boss may have been hit. According to him: it was an ex-employee, it occurred in the lobby of the building.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinn...ictim-identified-in-fifth-third-shooting.html
Richard Newcomer, a 64-year-old superintendent with Gilbane Building Co., was one of the three people shot dead by the gunman. Two others were injured. The gunman was also killed by police in the shooting.

Newcomer was working on a project on the third floor of the Fifth Third Center, Wes Cotter, a spokesman at Providence, R.I.-based Gilbane, told me in confirming Newcomer’s death. Newcomer was on the ground floor at the time of the shooting.

“I think he was just purely in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Cotter said. “It’s a tragedy. I can’t even put it into words.”

Cotter didn’t know if Newcomer is from the Cincinnati area or not. Gilbane doesn’t have an office in Cincinnati. Its nearest locations are in Columbus and Cleveland."

 

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Everything we know about the Fifth Third Bank shooting Downtown
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CINCINNATI -- A usually busy Fountain Square was empty Thursday afternoon, except for a single piece of yellow tape. Down the street, a woman screamed and sobbed into the arms of a Cincinnati police officer.

About an hour earlier, a Fifth Third Bank employee said he saw a gunman dressed in business attire walk into the lobby and spray bullets at innocent people. The employee saw the gunman as he exited a lobby elevator. He jumped back inside, narrowly avoiding a hail of bullets -- he heard them strike the elevator door when it closed.

Three to four Cincinnati police officers exchanged fire with the gunman, Chief Eliot Isaac said. One of the officers shot and killed the gunman, Mayor John Cranley said.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

I just heard from my step brother who unfortunately partially witnessed the shooting when he got off the elevator as it was occurring. He was with his boss and my SB immediately took off running, his boss may have been hit. According to him: it was an ex-employee, it occurred in the lobby of the building.

Oh my, how frightening.

 

[perfectingpink]

I am so tired of this. Prayers and love to everyone this has touched.

 

[Tssiemer]

I know I dog on my city a lot. But I’m proud of how CPD was able to contain the situation.

 

[Jax49]

LIVE: 4 dead, including gunman, in shooting at downtown Cincinnati office building

 

[margarita25]

I just heard from my step brother who unfortunately partially witnessed the shooting when he got off the elevator as it was occurring. He was with his boss and my SB immediately took off running, his boss may have been hit. According to him: it was an ex-employee, it occurred in the lobby of the building.

Hugs and prayers of gratitude that your step brother is ok, Hraefn. Unbelievable...any news on his boss?

 

[Hraefn]

Hugs and prayers of gratitude that your step brother is ok, Hraefn. Unbelievable...any news on his boss?

His boss was killed unfortunately. My SB had to give statements down at the station and is pretty torn up about it all. I think he is still in shock though, the impact hasn't quite hit him. Thank you for thinking of us.

 

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His boss was killed unfortunately. My SB had to give statements down at the station and is pretty torn up about it all. I think he is still in shock though, the impact hasn't quite hit him. Thank you for thinking of us.

So sorry that this horrible, inexplicable violence has touched your life and that of your SB, not to mention the loss of his boss's life.
Hope you guys are ok, thanks for popping by with the update, but imagine everyone is feeling terribly rattled.

 

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Cincinnati shooter had troubled past, including arrests and 'rambling' lawsuits against MSNBC: reports
"Fischer said she believed a woman was living with the shooter until around a few weeks ago. Other residents said his car had broken down a few months ago and that he would sometimes walk three miles on foot to a nearby village in order to hop on a bus heading to Cincinnati.

Santa Perez also – twice – filed lawsuits claiming MSNBC was spying on him, according to reports.

In January this year, he went after NBC Universal and TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, seeking $5.1 million in damages for emotional distress and “character assassination,” WCPO reported.

In the first lawsuit, Santa Perez claimed his cell phone and computer were hacked and “in a matter of four weeks (in spring 2017), ‘MSNBC’ created a character, grandeur a persona, unmasked and assassinated the character through its slanderous commentaries.”

After a county clerk dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice in June, he filed another one and said he was watching MSNBC when they began to start broadcasting information about him and intended to track him down, according to WCPO. Santa Perez reportedly added that TD Ameritrade was working in tandem with the news network to tap into his phone and electronics.

But in both cases, magistrate judges found the allegations “rambling, difficult to decipher and (bordering) on the delusional,” WCPO reported, and searches of MSNBC’s website on Friday morning returned no mentions of Santa Perez. Lawyers from both companies had been working to dismiss the lawsuit, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer."

 

[margarita25]

His boss was killed unfortunately. My SB had to give statements down at the station and is pretty torn up about it all. I think he is still in shock though, the impact hasn't quite hit him. Thank you for thinking of us.

Sending positive thoughts.

 

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'Save my life for my kids,' bank exec told Cincinnati shooting responders
September 26, 2018
"CINCINNATI - Believing she was dying after a gunman riddled her body with bullets, a bank executive said Wednesday she urged first responders to save her life for her two small children.

Whitney Austin, 37, survived 12 gunshots Sept. 6. She recounted her ordeal in a taped interview shown Wednesday on ABC's “Good Morning America.”

Intent on a conference call she was taking part in on her cellphone that morning, she walked into the lobby as other people tried to signal her away. The gunman shot her as she entered.

“It felt like a burning sensation,” she said, and when she began coughing up blood, “My brain immediately went toward: ”I'm dying.'“

Lying on the floor, she then focused on wanting to call her family to say goodbye.

“I assumed he saw me move and he shot me several more times,” said Austin. She then played dead.

She spotted a Cincinnati police officer and shouted: “I have a 5- and a 7-year-old who need their mother. You need to save me! Come get me!”