Thursday, February 04, 1999
Shot fired through family car at stoplight
BY PERRY BROTHERS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
As a Pleasant Ridge family waited at a stoplight Wednesday on their way home from church, a man in a green Pontiac pulled alongside the family's minivan, raised a pistol, smiled and fired one shot.
The bullet — fired about 9 p.m. — shattered the glass on the passenger side, narrowly missed Daniel Devlin's head, whizzed past his wife, Pamela, and burst through the driver's side window.
The couple's 13-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, riding in the back of the 1992 Dodge minivan, were frightened but unharmed.
“I remember thinking, "What's this guy doing, joking around? It can't be a real gun' — and then he shot,” Mr. Devlin said.
Though the bullet hit only glass as it passed through the car, Mrs. Devlin suffered minor cuts to her face. She was treated and released at Mercy Hospital Fairfield.
The man in the green Pontiac, described by Mr. Devlin as an older man with gray hair — remained at large late Wednesday. He fled the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and West Kemper Road after firing on the Devlin family.
The Hamilton County sheriff's criminal investigation section continued to search for the man and investigate the incident.
Neither Mr. Devlin nor his wife had seen the man before, Mr. Devlin said.
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