CINCINNATI — A woman is dead after a shooting in Over-the-Rhine Wednesday night, the Cincinnati Police Department said.
CPD said the shooting occurred in the 1600 block of Republic Street, near Green, around 9:10 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a 34-year-old woman shot in the back.
At least 15 shots rang out, and the woman, described as an "innocent bystander," was shot while walking, CPD said.
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On Thursday, police identified the woman as 34-year-old Chrishonda Ciera Wynn.
"It's just a sad situation that an innocent person who has nothing to do with any of this violence and crime going on in Cincinnati gets shot in the back and passes away," CPD Sgt. Phil Buccino said. "This person was innocent. She was walking on Vine (Street), turned down Green (Street), and she got hit in the back."
Police said Wynn was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, but she died from her injuries at the hospital.
Police did not give any suspect information in the shooting.
On Thursday, we returned to the scene and met a man, who declined to share his name with us, but said he knew Wynn. He described her as a hardworking mother of five.
"She has a newborn baby that's about five months (old) that (will) never know her — just walking home from work in her community, she gets murdered for absolutely no reason at all," he said. "Those five kids are going to be without a mother. One of them won't even know who her mother was, besides what [their] siblings tell her about her mother."
Wynn's mother said the family will hold a balloon release for her on Saturday. It will take place at Washington Park at 5 p.m.
