Toddler shot in Hamilton remains in intensive care
On Friday, Hamilton HAMILTON — police and the Butler County Sheriff ’s Office continued to keep quiet about the shooting of a toddler on Thanksgiving eve.
According to Hamilton Police, who released a statement early Thursday morning, officers were dispatched to a home in the 100 block of Lulu Avenue at 9:34 p.m. Wednesday for a child who had been shot.
Upon arrival, it was determined that the 22-monthold victim was being driven by the mother to Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus, police said.
The child, whose name and condition still had not been released on Friday afternoon, was then transferred to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Neighbors told Journal-News media partner WCPO that a man drove twice past the house on Lulu Avenue and shot multiple times. They said the mother carried the 22-month-old out of the house and drove the child to the hospital.
Friends of the family said the child is still in the intensive care unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
On Friday morning, no one answered the door at the home where the shooting occurred at the corner of Lulu and Maple avenues. The storm door was shattered and bullet holes were visible in the door and the frame.
A neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told the Journal-News he heard multiple gunshots Wednesday night, noting he was sitting on the couch when they rang out.
“It is pretty upsetting,” he said. “This is usually a quiet neighborhood.”
The shooter was in a vehicle, he said. He heard one shot then a few minutes later, several shots, he said.
“It was just heartbreaking, you know, especially something that happened in our community like that,” said Sierra Long, another neighbor.
Long said she and her husband were watching TV when they heard the gunshots.
“We heard a car squealing. About five minutes later, we heard about four cop cars come,” Long said.
Hamilton Police did not respond Friday to requests for more information about the shooting.
The Butler County Sheriff ’s Office on Friday declined to release 911 calls from the incident. Contact this reporter at 513705-2841 or email Lauren. Pack@coxinc.com.