Cincinnati police responded to a shooting in the Mount Airy neighborhood that left one person with a gunshot wound to the wrist, an injury described as non-life-threatening. The victim was taken to a hospital, and officers had no suspect information immediately available.
Officers were called to the 5200 block of Horizonvue Drive at 3:45 p.m., according to WKRC. Police found the wounded person at the scene and confirmed the injury was not considered life-threatening. The outlet reported that investigators had not identified any suspects as of the initial report.
A Neighborhood With a History of Gunfire
This is not the first shooting to draw police to Mount Airy this year. In March, officers said a person was grazed by a bullet around 9:52 p.m. in the 5000 block of Hawaiian Terrace and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, per the station’s report. That incident remains separate from Monday’s shooting, with no indication the two are connected.
In June, two people — a man and a woman — were hospitalized after officers responded to a shooting in the 2000 block of High Forest Lane around 11 p.m., according to WCPO. Police said that shooting began as a carjacking, and the suspect fled the scene believed to be driving a gray Toyota Camry. A more somber case unfolded in October 2025, when officers were dispatched around 4 a.m. to the 5000 block of Hawaiian Terrace and found a man who later died; police identified him as 26-year-old Jhonny Jesus Mercado-Perez, as reported by WCPO. None of these earlier incidents have been tied to Monday’s shooting on Horizonvue Drive.
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