Monday, July 31, 2000
Dad of shooting victim apparently killed self
By Bill Weathers and Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer
CROSBY TOWNSHIP — Flick's Home Like Inn was closed Sunday. A recorded telephone message told callers that the restaurant — a fixture on Columbia Avenue in the New Baltimore area since 1959 — was closed until further notice because of death in the family.
Owner Les Flick and his 22-year-old daughter, Dawn R. Flick, who lived six houses from each other on River Road in New Baltimore, died in separate shootings over the weekend.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said Les Flick, who was in his late 60s, died Sunday of a gunshot wound, apparently self-inflicted.
He was found at the restaurant at 2:30 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the head, and he died at University Hospital.
On Saturday, Ms. Flick was found shot to death in her home in the 6900 block of River Road, the sheriff's office said.
Her 30-year-old former boyfriend, Patrick L. Leonard, has been arrested and charged with aggravated murder in her death.
A unidentified man at the restaurant Sunday said Flick relatives weren't ready to talk about the deaths.
“They were wonderful people,” Crosby Township Trustee Jane Harper said Sunday of Mr. Flick and his daughter.
The family that includes Mr. Flick's wife, Linda, and another grown daughter, were very civic-minded, she said.
“They were always ready to help with anything in the community,” Mrs. Harper said.
The restaurant was a popular gathering spot, she added.
“It's a very nice family restaurant. It was a place you could take your kids.”
Les and Linda Flick bought the restaurant in 1964 from Mr. Flick's mother and stepfather, who had owned it since 1959.
“We're a family restaurant,” Mrs. Flick said in 1994, when she and her husband were celebrating 30 years of operating the restaurant.
Mr. Flick said then the restaurant customers were as important a factor in the restaurant success as the food.
"'I think it's as much the customers as anything else,” he said in 1994. “It's a friendly atmosphere.”
Katherine Emmick of New Baltimore, who had known Dawn Flick since she was a child, said: “She was so friendly, the kind of person who would always say hi to anybody.”
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