Police responding to mass shooting in Oregon District
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A shooting with multiple fatalities and several people wounded has occurred at or near Ned Peppers Bar on East Fifth Street in the city of Dayton?s Oregon District. Here?s the latest:
UPDATE @ 2:12 a.m.:
We?re hearing that a triage area has been established in the Oregon District and police are checking the bars in the area for any additional victims. Medics are reporting critical patients in the area.
Some of those same reports are also indicating that medics are directing people being described as ?walking wounded? to Grandview and Kettering hospitals.
UPDATE @ 2:24 a.m.:
Unconfirmed reports via police and fire scanners are indicating there may be as many as seven dead and an unknown number of victims wounded in a shooting at or near Ned Peppers Bar, in the 400 block of East Fifth Street.
Those scanner reports, also unconfirmed, are indicating that police are searching for a possible second shooter who may have left the area.
UPDATE @ 2:59 a.m.:
Sources are telling us there are at least 10 people dead and an unknown number of wounded. We?re working to confirm some eyewitness accounts that a person who was denied entry into the bar opened fire.
In a public Facebook post from a person named James Williams: ?Sad people are not right. I?m safe. Happened right in front of the patio where I was sitting in front of Neds. The guy in front of Ned Peppers? door is the active shooter.
?He tried to go into the bar but did not make it through the door. Someone took the gun from him and he got shot and is dead.
?There are at least eight people dead right by the picnic table where I was on the street. A bunch of people taken to the hospital. I don?t know how any... this place is a disaster.?