CINCINNATI– An Ohio student-athlete was wounded in a shooting outside a stadium where a high school football game was being played, authorities say, the second incident of gunfire near the stadium this month.
North College Hill police said the shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. Friday in the elementary school parking lot during a game between North College Hill and Woodward High School. Police said school officials and police immediately began evacuating the stadium and that police were working to “secure the scene.”
Woodward Career Technical High School Principal Sam Yates notified families in an email that a Woodward student-athlete was taken to the hospital for treatment.
North College Hill Principal Eugene Blalock Jr. said in a social media post that he was “disheartened” by what happened and concerned that “the emotional scars and trauma will be long lasting.”
“I feel completely powerless, but I recognize that we cannot control the actions of those who choose to engage in harmful behavior,” he said.
Shots were also fired at the stadium during a Sept. 6 game against Cincinnati Country Day. No one was injured. Blalock said it would be the last game played at the stadium this season.
“I live in North College Hill,” he told The (Cincinnati) Enquirer. “It’s a great community, but there are way too many guns on the streets.”
A spokesperson for Cincinnati Public Schools said a crisis response team “will be on site to support students as they return to school on Tuesday.”