A Blue Ash city council member is calling for bolstered security measures after roughly “400 unaccompanied youth” set off fireworks at the annual MadTree Red, White & Blue Ash celebration on Friday.
The large group of juveniles set off fireworks numerous times throughout the party, mostly around their group, police said, “intentionally causing panic.”
“And then a whole ‘nother group of people would run through that crowd yelling, ‘Gun, shooter,’ anything else they could think of to generate even more panic,” councilman Jeff Capell said. “I felt horrible for the people who were right there and had to go through it.”…