Cincinnati detectives are looking for any link between two shootings in five hours that left two men dead and two others hurt.

        Montez “E Money” Taylor, 23, of Silverton, faces two counts of aggravated murder in one shocking double killing Monday night in Pleasant Ridge that ended with two bodies on a lawn along usually quiet Dryden Avenue.

        Witnesses said the shooter got out of his car about 7 p.m., ran over to the wrecked Honda CRV he'd been chasing and pumped bullets, point-blank, into both men trapped inside.

        Mr. Taylor was apprehended about three hours later when he went home to Sampson Lane. But investigators now want to talk to another suspect they think also was in Mr. Taylor's getaway car, a red Ford Escort.

        Later, a few minutes into Tuesday, there was more gunfire a mile away in Kennedy Heights. This time, police were dispatched to Beech View Circle, where they found a man shot in the leg. That victim refused treatment. Another, shot in the face, was taken to Children's Hospital by neighbors. He remained hospitalized later Tuesday.

        Homicide investigators don't yet know if there's a connection between the two incidents.

        “They're so geographically close,” said Sgt. John Newsom, a homicide supervisor, “you have to look at that as a possibility.”

        The two men killed in the chase, crash and shooting — Lornie P. Starkey, 22, of Kennedy Heights and Clem Turner III, 20, of Mount Auburn — were the 24th and 25th homicide victims this year. That compares with 18 by this time in 2000.

        The city had nearly made it a week without a shooting when, on Friday, Devonte Williams, 2, was hit in cross-fire on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine.

Shooting surge sets city on edge
       

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