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News review: Monday, May 3
Each Monday, I’ll be taking a look at the (prior) week that was, highlighting local stories of interest.
Would have likely visited this space a few more times had it not been for the blitzkrieg of things to tend to.
The week began (for us anyway) during the early morning hours of Sunday, April 25, when Jamie Belty was beaten unconscious by a hammer-wielding Joshua Berkheimer.
By Monday, Hamilton police were lauding the efforts of Officer Casey Johnson, who shot and killed Berkheimer in Berkheimer’s Princeton Square apartment after the local man refused to listen to orders to drop the hammer.
Instead, he continued striking Belty as police stood by with guns drawn. Berkheimer died instantly after taking a single shot in the chest.
Belty continues to improve, and friends and family members attribute at least some of that to the support that’s rallied around her. Shortly after she was admitted to Miami Valley Hospital, friends set up a page on Facebook to communicate about her improving condition.
As of this morning, the page had (amazingly) more than 2,500 friends.
The following morning, two people were killed in Butler County in fatal car crashes. The accidents happened within two hours and 20 miles of one another; each involved a passenger vehicle crossing the center line into an oncoming semi.
Dumb luck put me on the scene early enough that it was before the rest of the media were closed out. As a result, I shot about a dozen photos from the accident along Ohio 128. Photog Nick Graham shot the others from the accident in Madison Twp.
And we had a busy Saturday locally, highlighted by the annual Neighborhood Clean-up.
Thoughts on any of these?
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