Staff/Wire reports

SPRINGDALE - Police were investigating a fatal shooting Monday night near West Kemper Road and Rose Lane.

Police confirmed that one person was dead.

Officers responded to residence near at the intersection about 7:50 p.m. for a report of shots fired and discovered the victim.

Numerous bullet shell casings were found at the scene.

Investigators from Springdale police and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office were at the crime scene.

The name of the victim and details of the shooting were not immediately available late Monday.

Body identified; cause of death was gunshot

WESTWOOD - A decomposing body found Sunday night was identified Monday as that of a 20-year-old man who had been missing for about two weeks.

The body of Quentin Gill, of Wells Avenue in Price Hill was found about 7 p.m. in a vacant apartment in the 3300 block of McHenry Avenue. The Hamilton County coroner said Gill was shot to death.

Gill was wanted for failing to show up in court last month on a criminal trespassing charge. He was charged with being on Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority property after he had been ordered to stay off. He also was wanted on drug possession and obstruction of official business charges, filed after an arrest in March during which he bailed out of a stolen car and ran, police said.

Gill's was the 25th homicide in Cincinnati this year, which is four fewer than at this time last year.

Woman gets 10 years for killing roommate

A College Hill woman admitted Monday that she killed her roommate, Ann Thornton, last fall.

Zabrina Hall, 30, pleaded guilty in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing of Thornton, 39, during an argument on Sept. 12.

Judge Thomas Crush sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

Cinco party subdued; police out in force

CLIFTON HEIGHTS - Police and University of Cincinnati officials said they are pleased that Cinco de Mayo revelers did not get out of hand this year.

Extra police patrols continued in the neighborhoods around the campus last week and through the weekend. Officers broke up a party on Moerlein Avenue on April 30and confiscated 13 kegs of beer.

This year's extra enforcement came after two straight years when parties on Stratford Avenue turned into melees. Police promised more officers this year, and the university responded by hanging notices on the doors of 4,000 students telling them of a new state law that cuts financial aid and bars admission to state schools to anyone convicted of rioting, even off-campus.

District 5 Sgt. Matt Hassert said Monday officers would "keep an eye out the rest of the year. A party can happen at any time."

Former boyfriend faces list of charges

LEBANON - A Camden man is facing a long list of felony and misdemeanor charges after, authorities say, he broke into his ex-girlfriend's home and assaulted her.

Charles Randall Wyatt, 32, is charged with domestic violence, violating a protection order, felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon, attempted rape, two counts of menacing by stalking and two counts of aggravated burglary.

A Warren County grand jury handed up the indictments Friday. They were released Monday.

Wyatt is accused of breaking into the home in Carlisle on Feb. 14 and assaulting the woman. He is also accused of telephoning the woman at work, and was found with a loaded handgun, prosecutors said.

• James William Gillespie, 30, was indicted on a theft charge after he was hired by a Middletown resident to do a roofing job, collected over $1,000 for materials, but didn't do the work, prosecutors said.

• Johnny Clay Sorrell, 23, was indicted on a DUI charge. He has had at least six such convictions in the last six years, prosecutors said.

17-year-old held in shooting death

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP - A 17-year-old Springfield Township boy was arrested in the fatal shooting of a man early Sunday, authorities said Monday.

The teen, whom officials did not identify, was charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in the death of Thomas E. Boggans II, of Colerain Township, said Hamilton county sheriff's deputies. He was arrested late Sunday.

Boggans, 21, was shot during a robbery attempt while sitting in a car with friends about 4:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Ashley Woods apartment complex on Walden Glen Circle, authorities said.

Two people walked up to Boggans. Witnesses told investigators that one pulled out a pistol and fired one shot at Boggans. Boggans was hit in the back near the left shoulder.

He was pronounced dead at Franciscan Mercy Hospital.

Search yields some items but no body

PERRY TWP. - The nearly two-week search for remains of a Clinton County woman could be winding down, Brown County Sheriff's Chief Deputy John Dunn said Monday.

On Friday, Saturday and Monday, investigators found several items that might be linked to Carrie Culberson, who was 22 when she disappeared in 1996. Authorities wouldn't describe the articles, but said Culberson's mother, Debbie, recognized at least one of them as belonging to her daughter.

Unless remains or additional items are found today, investigators probably will conclude their work, Dunn said.

"I still think this is going to be our answer ... this spot," Debbie Culberson told reporters at the search site Monday.

In 1997, Vincent Doan, Carrie Culberson's former boyfriend, was convicted of kidnapping and murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Boy hit by cruiser has minor injuries

MOUNT WASHINGTON - A 13-year-old boy was injured Monday afternoon when he was struck by a Cincinnati police cruiser on Mears Avenue.

Cory Hospelhorn, of EldoradoAvenue in Mount Washington, darted into the road from between parked vehicles in the 1900 block of Mears Avenue and was struck by a marked police vehicle driven by Officer Gregg Coleman, police said. The accident happened about 2:10 p.m.

The teen was taken to Children's Hospital Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries. He was not in a crosswalk when he was struck, police said.

The accident remains under investigation by the Cincinnati Police Department's traffic unit.

Girl, 2, dies after being struck by vehicle

WALNUT HILLS - A 2-year-old girl was fatally injured Monday afternoon when she was struck by a vehicle in the 900 block of Nassau Street, police said.

Police and fire personnel responded to a report of a person struck about 3:55 p.m. Monday and found the girl unconscious. Additional details were not immediately available.