A bar that was the site of the city’s most recent homicide was among five in Hamilton that accounted for nearly half of all police calls to businesses with liquor permits in 2009 and 2010.

Donnell A. Holland, 44, of Hamilton, was found fatally shot around 1:45 a.m. Friday in the parking lot of the Grub Pub & Patio, 47 Hancock Ave. His death is being investigated as a homicide, Detective Rich Burkhardt said.

Hamilton police have been dispatched to the Grub Pub 47 times this year, Burkhardt said. Police responded to the Grub Pub address 124 times in 2009 and 2010, according to a JournalNews analysis of police records.

“We get calls there like most any bar; I don’t think it’s much of a trouble spot,” Sgt. David Collins said.

Bar owner Lou Horsley said he responded to the bar following the shooting.

“(Holland) never made it inside. There was an altercation outside,” Horsley said. “People inside didn’t know it happened until they heard popping sounds.”

“Our biggest problem is that people don’t leave when they are told to leave,” co-owner Shirley Horsley told the JournalNews in 2011.

At that time, Shirley Horsley said 12 cameras provided security in and around the establishment, and she had often assisted police in providing video footage that helped criminal investigations in the neighborhood.

Police have not released any suspect information in Friday’s shooting.

Holland was a 1986 graduate of Hamilton High School, according to his Facebook profile. He was remembered Friday by friends as a caring assistant coach for Hamilton Little Blue Football.

Holland had been an assistant coach with the organization for more than two years, according to Kenny Beaman, president of Hamilton Little Blue Football.

“He will be sorely missed in every sense of the word,” Beaman said. “He was the best peacemaker I’ve known. If ever there was a conflict on the field, he was the first to resolve it.”

Beaman said Holland was a caring man and “huge asset” to the football organization, which serves children in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Holland is survived by several children, according to Beaman.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to contact the Hamilton Police Investigations Section at 513-868-5811, ext. 2002.