A man was found shot multiple times on a porch near East 103rd Street on Cleveland’s East Side overnight, according to police and EMS crews who responded to the scene early Sunday. A male suspect was reportedly seen fleeing the area on foot, and officers said evidence was left behind in the street as detectives were called in to continue the investigation.
The shooting was first reported through The Cleveland, Ohio Remembrance Page, which said the victim was conscious and breathing when first responders arrived, according to initial radio traffic. Officers reported that a crowd had gathered at the scene as the investigation got underway. As of the report’s publication, the victim’s condition and the full circumstances of the shooting had not been officially confirmed, and the incident remains a developing story.
Shot-detection alerts indicated that several rounds had been fired in the surrounding area, pointing investigators toward the immediate vicinity of the attack. Cleveland relies on ShotSpotter, an acoustic gunshot-detection system covering 13 square miles of the city, after the Board of Control approved an $853,340 one-year contract extension with SoundThinking in April to keep the technology running, according to Signal Cleveland.
A Corridor With a Recent History of Violence
East 103rd Street has seen serious violent crime in recent months. In February, a rideshare driver was fatally shot and carjacked near East 103rd Street and Rosehill Avenue, a case that Hoodline covered in a deadly Lyft ride report. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office obtained grand jury indictments against two suspects in that case in July…