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Staff Report Updated 6:24 PM Wednesday, July 1, 2009

HAMILTON — Witnesses have described men they said fled the scene of an East Avenue shooting on Tuesday, June 30.

According to Hamilton police reports, Richard Caldwell, 37, of the 300 block of Hampshire Avenue, was talking with other residents while on his bicycle at the corner of East Avenue and Walnut Street just before 6:42 p.m. June 30 when someone walked up and shot him once in the leg near the knee.

Witnesses on police 911-tapes said two black men wearing white shirts ran east on Walnut Avenue after Caldwell was shot. Another caller said a black man wearing black ran from the scene.

Police said Caldwell claimed not to know who shot him.

No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting, according to Officer Dave Crawford, Hamilton police spokesman.

Caldwell was initially transported by ambulance to The Fort Hamilton Hospital, but due to the bullet’s proximity to an artery, he was later flown by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Cincinnati. His injury was described as not life-threatening, said Crawford.

Hospital officials declined to release Caldwell’s condition or any other information.

Crawford said the case is under investigation. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the investigations unit at (513) 868-5811, extension 2002.

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What about the 8+ residents on/around G Street, off of Ross who have been robbed for months?

The residents who finally found their belongings in a shed down the alley behind Ross, between F and G and called the police.

The police arrested two teenage boys, with Meth on their persons who lived in the property that the shed was on, only to release them the next day because "nobody witnessed the thefts."

Game over. This is the HPD most of us know. This is why our support has disappeared

G street blindness
3:32 AM, 7/20/2009

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Paloma, if you would have had your license plate on you would not have been stoped and they could have been doing something else the officer didn't write the law about front plates he/she was just doing their job

Dawghouse
11:14 AM, 7/2/2009

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Hey Paloma.what our officers need to do.is arrest you for having forged documents.you dont like it GET OUT OF OUR AMERICA NOW.your not a social worker.your a ILLEGAL ..................

STIX
9:17 AM, 7/2/2009

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To Paloma,

It violates Ohio law to not display a license plate from the front of your vehicle so the police had every right to pull you over for the violation with no regard to the decency of your car. I highly doubt two prositutes were "completing a transaction" in front of two cops. Instead of bad mouthing Hamilton Police for something that has absolutely no connection to this article, find something better to do with your time, like bolting on your front license plate.

Steve
1:54 AM, 7/2/2009

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Hamilton Police Department has nothing else better to do then prey on the ones who are innocent. I volunteer in the area of East Avenue and the pulled me over for having not a license plate in the front. I drove a decent car, tags current and no defects with the car. Two prositutes were completing a transaction across the street from me and the cops. There were two cop cars doing their business with me,you would figure it would only take one. Bad part, I am a licensed social worker

Paloma
11:19 PM, 7/1/2009

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