SWAT team arrests man accused of shooting Hamilton toddler

A 23-year-old man is charged in the shooting last week of a 2-year-old girl in Hamilton.

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Noah Kaleb Jones is accused of shooting the toddler Nov. 21 in the 100 block of Lulu Avenue. She was shot in the jaw, according to a Hamilton police incident report.

Credit: BUTLER COUNTY JAIL

Credit: BUTLER COUNTY JAIL

Police Chief Craig Bucheit announced Jones’ arrest Tuesday night on social media.

He said “an exhaustive investigation” by Hamilton police ended in a SWAT search warrant and arrest around 4 p.m. in the 600 block of Eaton Avenue in Hamilton.

 

Jones was booked into the Butler County Jail on suspicion of two counts of felonious assault and one count of improperly discharging a firearm.

Police were called shortly after 9:30 p.m. Nov. 21 to a report of a child shot inside the home.

When they arrived, the 2-year-old gunshot victim was being driven by her mother to Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus in Liberty Twp. From there, she was transferred to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.

A hospital employee said Tuesday night the girl has been discharged, but that it wasn’t clear when.

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According to neighbors, a man twice drove by the house and shot multiple times.

Bucheit told our media partner, WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, that the house or household member was targeted in the shooting, but not the child victim.

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