Cincinnati police are investigating an assault involving a man at a West Side Shell station. The assault happened on August 8 at 2454 Harrison Avenue.
Suspect Kept Striking Victim After He Went Down
According to the Cincinnati Police Department
, the suspect approached the victim and punched him multiple times in the face, knocking him to the ground, then continued striking him while he was down. The department’s District 3 unit is leading the investigation and is directing anyone with information to Detective Kneller at 513-263-8338. Tipsters who want to remain anonymous can also call Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040.
The 2454 Harrison Avenue address is a 24-hour Shell gas station and convenience store situated along the West Side’s busy commercial corridor, according to Shell’s own location listings. It is a property that has drawn repeated emergency dispatches for violence in recent months. Radio logs captured on the Citizen app show a separate incident at the same station on September 10, in which a woman allegedly punched a man in the face and stole his phone. Another Citizen-recorded dispatch from August 2 documented a reported shooting in the abdomen at the same Shell station, underscoring a pattern of serious calls to the location even as investigators work this specific August 8 case.
District 3 Covers Wide Swath of Cincinnati’s West Side
District 3 Covers Wide Swath of Cincinnati’s West Side Cincinnati Police District 3 is responsible for 18 western neighborhoods, including Westwood and Fairmount, and is staffed by 161 sworn officers under Captain David Sprague, per the City of Cincinnati. That broad footprint means District 3 detectives are simultaneously fielding a wide range of violent crime cases across the area’s commercial strips and residential blocks…