OVER-THE-RHINE – A march aiming to stop violence in Cincinnati nearly collided with a fatal gunfight Monday night.

As Bishop Bobby Hilton and about 100 men turned a corner in Over-the-Rhine near Findlay Market, three men began shooting at Findlay Playground. When one of the men was hit, he ran from the park and collapsed on Race Street – about half a block from the march's leaders, Cincinnati police spokeswoman Lt. Danita Pettis said.

Police have identified the deceased as 18-year-old Justin Crutchfield.

The shooting comes a day after it was announced that Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell's plan to reduce crime in the city would be postponed due to the Friday slaying of Officer Sonny Kim in Madisonville.

Crutchfield was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he later died, police said.

State Sen. Cecil Thomas, a former Cincinnati police officer and city councilman, was in the march and speaking to community members about turning things around when the shots rang out. He immediately ran to the teen.

You know, there are good men and women in these communities working so hard to stop the violence. I simply don't know what can be done when punk ace thugs shoot up an anti-violence march.

Well, actually I do know one thing - reinforce the importance of family, marriage, and specifically, fathers. White liberals have destroyed norms surrounding the tradition and advantages that two people have raising their own biological or jointly adopted children, advantages that are too obvious to need enumeration. These norms weren’t destroyed because of people with bad values. They were destroyed by a plague of white liberal nonjudgmentalism refusing to assert that one way of behaving was better than another.

Way to go white liberals.

(06-23-2015 08:33 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  You know, there are good men and women in these communities working so hard to stop the violence. I simply don't know what can be done when punk ace thugs shoot up an anti-violence march.

Well, actually I do know one thing - reinforce the importance of family, marriage, and specifically, fathers. White liberals have destroyed norms surrounding the tradition and advantages that two people have raising their own biological or jointly adopted children, advantages that are too obvious to need enumeration. These norms weren’t destroyed because of people with bad values. They were destroyed by a plague of white liberal nonjudgmentalism refusing to assert that one way of behaving was better than another.

Way to go white liberals.

Guessing we have 30 homicides in Cincy this year. I bet all of the murderers were not raised in a home with a Father.