The owner of the main street bar said his employee was an innocent side person when the pistol erupted into the city center on Sunday.
Sinsinati police reported that a 37 -year -old man was found to be shot in a 600 main street quarter just before June 29th. At midnight. He was taken to a district hospital with injuries that were not life -threatening, officials said
Kyle Smith, owner of Bay Horse Cafe, told Enquirer that he was his doorman, which was grazed by a bullet.
Smith said the surveillance camera footage from the bar indicates that this could have been a rage incident between two drivers on the main street. He said the footage shows a red SUV killed on its brakes, and a black car spun around it before the drivers started to change the arms fire.
The front window of the Bay Horse café was boarded after the owner says that the shooting of two drivers on the main street on June 29th.
There were a total of about 10 shots, Smith said, four of whom entered his office by breaking the windshield. Smith said he spent all night in the hospital with his door after one bullet grazed his leg, but he was expected to be fine.
Police said some also reported minor injuries at the scene due to broken glass.
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Shooting on the main street, barely a quarter from the center of Aronoff, occurs through what the mayor Afftab called “unacceptable crime rug” throughout the sinintat. Police chief Teresa Theetge attributed most of it to minors in an interview with Enquirer that she begins a rotating working group to actively target crime.
Smith said security was his priority at the bar, which was reopened in April, replacing the owners and encouraging the crowd of service acceptance.
“I have been working in the city center for eight years,” Smith said. “It was never so bad.”
Sinsinati police did not disclose any additional information about why the shooting occurred. The study is still in progress.
Recent data shows that continued violent, crime in the city center
Both violent and property crimes have been significantly increased this year in the city center. So far this year, in the city center, according to neighborhood crime data until June 29, there were:
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30 robberies compared to 18 to 2024, with an average of 12.67 in the last three years.
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56 burglary/fracture and incidents, compared to 21 to this point by 2024, and on average 23.67 in the last three years.
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242 Automatic thefts compared to 133 to this point by 2024. And an average of 130 in the last three years.
Bay Horse Cafe Dorman is the 10th person shot so far this year, according to the city dashboard, last updated on June 24th. Until this time, there were six people shot in the city center last year.
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In general, the shootings have been reported to decline in Sinsinati this year compared to the number of shootings currently last year. City data show that 2024 135 shootings were reported this year.
However, the number of people killed during the shooting remained constant worldwide. To date, 2025 The shootings were killed by 30 people, at the same time at the point of last year.
The city publishes summaries of public security and other topics crime statistics, which it updates semi -regular. The Sinsinati Police Crime Analysis Department also publishes crime data according to the neighborhood, which usually updates weekly.
This article initially appeared in Cincinnati Enquirer: “It was never so bad:“ The shooting of the city center near the Bar’s latest crime