Affecting traffic in the Princeton area yesterday...

Good stuff at school yesterday...on the way in, I heard about the shooting on the highway about a mile south of school that was shutting down the interstate and directing everybody off right at good ol' PHS. Seems that a late night at a sports bar in the district turned ugly when one car pulled an assault rifle on I-75 and put at least nine bullets into an SUV. The SUV flipped into the off ramp, and the passengers didn't make it. All of this was before 3am.

In the least of the tragedies associated, a dozen teachers were late getting in because they normally roll south on I-75 and get here right at the contract time.

The Enquirer web article yet again allowed the high level of discourse to shine through in their comments section...

• Bored_at_work

  Sounds about right. You wouldn't catch me dead at the Garage on a Tuesday night. $2 Tuesdays is the day of the week when all the hood rats and thugs come out and start mess.. INstead of keeping it at home, they get dressed up and plan on going there just to fight and act a fool. NOt my cup of tea.

• Like the Bible says "an eye for an eye".

  Bobish

  That's Old Testament. Check out what Christ had to say about that. Something about turning the other cheek.

• LibTwpThug

  Jesus is my homeboy. I know he preach the truth!

• MrPips

  Did someone throw a chicken wing at someone or something? Did they get "dissed" as a result and figure it's time to do some killin?
  
  So far it's been a two week long crime spree of raping, robbing and killing on the greater Cincinnati streets.
  
  I am so tired of living here.

• Waveontheway

  I'm not interested in the death penalty as a deterrent. I'm interested in the death penalty as a way of elliminating these monster psychopaths from the planet. Anyone agree?
  
  There is a genetic abherration that needs to be cleansed from the Earth, and it has finally manifested itself in spades in the Cincinnati Metro area.

• Montrell

  No surprise really. I imagine things like this will happen more and more often in Cincinnati in the future. The Cincinnati area has become awful in comparison with other big cities. Thugs, ghetto gangbangers, white trash...the influx of these types of people into the Cincinnati area continues at a rapid pace.

• helpmelord

  GOD in his wisdom is laughing at us! Those "Who Know" and those "Who think they know" what is right, truth, moral, good, evil. Its insightful to read these posts. It tells me the world is truly a dangerous place and the danger really does not come from the people who kill each other on the highway. What technology has done through the use of blogs like this is tell you how much "hate, judgement, racism, prejuidice, exist in the world. Its only the advent of technology that allows us to see both kinds (the inhumane -those that take lives and the humane- those that destroy lives through hatemongering). The 'murders' we see on the nightly news have always occurred since the beginning of time - Cain killed Abel, Ted Bundy, that clown in Chicago who ate the flesh of boys, etc.... but that's a small percentage compared to those that murder life through the spoken/written word. Maybe God will hear the words spoken in hate and respond in kind.

• keeco09

  This is a tragedy no matter what road they went sown to in life, even the worst criminals have someone who loves them and that is Jesus Christ, his gift of love is availible to anyone who is willing to receive it, so please don't be judgemental because therefore by the grace of God, go I. It's just ashame this had to be something straight out of a movie, and of course in movies people seek revenge and there goes the cycle it may never end. To see lives wasted and for what, what could of been that important to have a shootout on a freeway at 3 o'clock in the morning innocent lives could of been lost, what is this world coming to? I know big brother has some kind of surveilence (hope it's spelled right) where they could look into some video from outer space and see the whole thing and get the license plate of the other car or something, anytime I can google my mother's address and see a 360 degree view of her house with her sitting on the porch on a summer day come on people!

• FOXMOTO

  I have a HUGE problem with people who are sad these guys are dead. This is a great day in Cincinnati! Rejoice! No one innocent was hurt! Two career criminals GONE! F*** The families who raised these kids, too. They have contributed NOTHING but filith into society. Ban section 8! Lets regain our cities and streets from the ignorant, trash currently occupying it.
  AND NIKODIN, YOU'RE THE BIGGEST DA I HAVE EVER SEEN COMMENT ON THE INTERNET. IF SOMEONE PULLED A GUN ON YOU, YOU WOULD PROBABLY LET THEM SHOOT YOU YOU'RE SO IGNORANT. THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS IS AS OLD AS THE CONSTITUION ITSELF. YOU'RE A WALKING CONTRADICTION! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS NO FASCINATION WITH GUNS WHEN YOU WERE A KID? WE DIDN'T MAGICALLY INSTITUTE THE SECOND AMMENDMENT 30 YEARS AGO! IT'S THE RAPPERS, THE FREE MEALS OUR COUNTRY GIVES OUT, THE SOCIAL NORMS ENTITILING THESE IDIOTS TO ACT THE WAY THEY DO. HOW CAN YOU BE SO NAIVE?
  
  YOU PROBABLY BLAMED GEORGE BUSH FOR HURRICANE KATRINA.

Then, around 10:30 that same morning, here's what we got via the school email...

A little over an hour ago an individual entered a “business” in the general vicinity of the Scarlet Oaks Campus and stabbed a person.

As a result the Scarlet Oaks campus was put on lockdown. Since that time Scarlet Oaks has lifted their lockdown and is back to normal operations.

The only description of the individual (from police) is a male, black wearing a white and blue New York Yankees’ cap and baggy black trousers. Unknown on age, height, wgt., etc. The subject was last seen “walking west” on Kemper Road.

The police perimeter has also been lifted (in search of the individual). There is no information that the suspect is heading toward Glendale or any specific school. Obviously the police are investigating same.

The high school / middle school SRO is aware of the situation. Obviously we will monitor same.

It's a rough morning to be around the Princeton area...sheesh...