Cincinnati's 30th homicide this year occurred Saturday night when a 22-year-old Pleasant Ridge man was shot at a notorious intersection in Roselawn and died at a nearby apartment.

        After being shot at least once as he stood on the corner of Sam's Carryout, Tony Johnson ran across the 2700 block of Seymour Avenue and frantically knocked on the door of a residence at the Huntington Meadows apartments in Bond Hill for help, police and neighbors said.

        Mr. Johnson died in that apartment's living room about 10 p.m., police said.

        A shotgun was recovered about a block away at 10:25 p.m. in the 5900 block of Rhode Island, according to police dispatch reports, but it wasn't clear Sunday if that was the weapon used in Mr. Johnson's shooting.

        No arrests had been made as of Sunday night.

        Mr. Johnson was the father of a 2-year-old girl.

        The city's 2002 homicide rate is nearly double that of 2001.

        On Sunday, Bond Hill neighbor Patricia Carson hit the street where the shooting unfolded, talking to youth and urging them to come forward if they have information.

        Roger Owensby Sr. of College Hill joined her. His son, Roger Owensby Jr., was asphyxiated while in police custody November 2000 in the Sunoco gas station parking lot next door to the carryout where Mr. Johnson was shot Saturday.

        “A lot of kids hang out on this corner,” Ms. Carson said Sunday. We've been working really hard trying to get these kids to come forward, but they won't come forward to the right people,” she said.

        Ms. Carson lost her 18-year-old son in 1999 after he fell from a fence and broke his neck while running from school hall monitors at Woodward High School.

        She is the founder of a group to help parents cope with the violent death of their children: EMPTY, which stands for Endless Mothers Pain for Today's Youth.

        On Sunday, she and Mr. Owensby encouraged Huntington Meadows residents to at least tell them if they had information about Saturday's shooting and they would pass details onto the authorities.

        “If you all want to talk, call me and I'll come over,” Mr. Owensby said. “If you want to come over to my house, I'll come over and get you. When we start killing ourselves, that's bad.”

        Ms. Carson told the youth each has a responsibility to curtailing the violence and urged them to mentor younger children.

        “Tell all your friends that when they take another's life they not only take that life but they also take their own mother's life,” she said. “Because when they are caught and put on Death Row, now, their mother is going to lose them.”

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