The body of a 31-year-old Pleasant Ridge man was found by police Saturday afternoon in a parked car near Golf Manor.

Police are investigating the death of Lamont Ross as a homicide. He was found inside the car on the 2600 block of Fernview Court with a gunshot wound.

Ross is the 71st homicide victim in Cincinnati during 2003, the highest number since 66 killings in 1987. The Cincinnati record for homicides in one year was 81 in 1971.

Anyone with information about the death is asked to call the criminal investigations section of Cincinnati police at (513) 352-3542.

Pizza delivery driver robbed at Fay Apts.

FAY APARTMENTS - Three young men, one brandishing a silver-colored handgun, robbed a pizza delivery driver here late Saturday night, police said.

Shortly after 11 p.m. a delivery driver for Scarlato's Pizza made a delivery to Fay Apartments, 3878 President Drive. Three men in their teens or early 20s told the driver to lie down, took $40 to $50 cash from him, then fled.

Police have not made any arrests.

Tree falls onto lift at Perfect North Slopes

LAWRENCEBURG - An uprooted tree fell on a ski lift at Perfect North Slopes Sunday afternoon, injuring one person and shutting down the lift and a slope for at least an hour, witnesses and Perfect North employees said.

One woman, who bounced from the lift to the ground when the lift suddenly stopped at about 2:45 p.m., was aided by the Perfect North ski patrol, then taken to Dearborn County Hospital for evaluation.

After the tree, on the side of a steep slope near chair lift number five, tipped onto the chair lift, ski patrollers and ski instructors evacuated about 120 skiers and snowboarders from the stopped lift.

About 60 Perfect North employees used a rope harness system to lower those stuck on the lift, according to reports from witnesses and Perfect North officials.

Kari Theurer of Delhi Township was skiing with friends Sunday. When the tree fell, she was on the next hill over.

"We just heard a huge crash," she said. "The tree just fell right onto the lift."

Man shot, woman hurt while sitting at corner

PENDLETON - A man was shot and a woman was hit in the leg by bullet fragments before dawn Sunday as they sat on a street corner, police said.

Ellis Ramsey, 23, was sitting on the corner of 13th and Pendleton streets at 3:25 a.m. when he was shot in the leg. He and the woman who was hit were taken to University Hospital.

Police have no information about the shooter.

Girl, 9, injured critically in crash

AVONDALE - A 9-year-old girl was in critical condition Sunday at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center with spinal injuries after a mid-morning car wreck.

Four other people were hurt when the driver lost control of her car and smashed into a building on Reading Road, police said.

Around 11:20 a.m., Sherrie Carr, 31, of Newport was driving north on Reading Road with two of her daughters and two other girls in her car.

An ambulance was driving down the street, and Carr told police she swerved to avoid an SUV that was avoiding the ambulance. Her car hopped the curb, drove up on the sidewalk and hit a brick building at 3326 Reading Road, near the intersection with Stewart Avenue.

All five occupants of the car were transported to hospitals. The most serious injuries were to Johnneka Lackey, 9, listed in critical condition, and Jayvon Lackey, 7, listed in serious condition.

Man, 19, charged with pulling a gun

MOUNT AUBURN - A 19-year-old man, whom police described as angry over gambling losses, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly pulled a gun on another man.

Michael Gay, 19, was charged with aggravated robbery after his arrest at 5000 Ridge Ave. at 3:34 a.m.

Police said Gay earlier left a gambling game in Mount Auburn and later returned with a gun and two friends. The friends, Eugene Lampkin and David E. Alexander, have been charged as accomplices.