The mother of Cassandra Betts filed a $9 million wrongful death suit on Thursday against downtown barbershop owner Tony Ringer, who is charged with murder in Ms. Betts' shooting death in December.

        Barbaranne Irving of West Chester Township also seeks a preliminary injunction in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to prevent Mr. Ringer from moving any money or property that might be used to satisfy a judgment.

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        “We heard he (Mr. Ringer) was transferring a lot of assets that could be used to help Ms. Betts' daughter,” Ms. Irving's attorney, Firooz T. Namei, said Thursday. “We are asking the court for injunctive relief to freeze those assets. We were going to wait until the criminal matter was over, until we heard he was moving assets.”

        Ms. Betts' 7-year-old daughter, Justyce Eryn Martin, was in the car with her mother when the 25-year-old Ms. Betts — who was pregnant — was fatally shot in a Woodlawn parking lot.

        “The problem is we have a young girl who was in the car and saw her mother killed,” Mr. Namei said. “Her grandmother believes she will need counseling for a long time to come.”

        Mr. Ringer's attorney, Ken Lawson, was out of town and unavailable for comment, but a spokesman in his office said they had not received a copy of the lawsuit.

        Mr. Ringer, 39, who is out of jail on $1 million bond, is to go on trial later this year. He made a taped statement to police Dec. 21 in which he said Ms. Betts was shot when he struggled to take a gun away from her.

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