3 Children Shot at Gender-Reveal Party
At least nine people were shot and one person was killed when two unidentified shooters opened fire into the living room of a Cincinnati, Ohio, home Saturday, Cincinnati.com reports. People had been gathered to celebrate a 21-year-old’s gender-reveal party - hours earlier, the woman had announced she was pregnant with a boy.
Three of those injured in the shooting were children, none of whom sustained life-threatening injuries. Two adults shot remained at a nearby hospital on Sunday evening. Autum Garrett, 22, was killed in the shooting.
A relative of the pregnant woman told WCPO the woman had lost her baby in the shooting. Colerain Township Chief of Police Mark Denney has not confirmed that information.
Several 911 calls obtained by the station capture screaming and sobbing. "There's a whole lot of people here are shot," a man tells the operator. "I just seen two people walk by, I looked outside, next thing I know they just ran in and just start shooting.” He also says he believes he’s been shot in the stomach.
CNN reports police are still searching for the two suspects described in the calls."Our hearts are heavy with what we've seen and experienced in our community," police spokesman Jim Love said.
Update 7/18, 1:20 a.m.: Colerain Township Police released a statement on 7/17 alleging that the woman throwing the gender-reveal party wasn't actually pregnant. Chief Mark Denney shared that investigators could only speculate as to why the woman had claimed to be pregnant throughout the case.
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