The Enquirer

HYDE PARK - A passenger on a motorcycle died Saturday night after the motorcycle struck a pickup truck on Madison Road.

Nina Volz, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene. She was not wearing a helmet.

Jason Kasley, 25, was driving the motorcycle west on Madison Road shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday when he struck a Dodge Ram pickup truck being driven by Steven Willhoite, 35, of Florence.

Kasley, who was also not wearing a helmet, was taken to University Hospital, where he was in critical condition.

Willhoite was not injured in the crash.

Gunshot injures man in attempted robbery

COLERAIN TWP. - Police are looking for a suspect in a shooting early Sunday that left a man injured.

About 3 a.m. in the parking lot of the Ashley Woods apartment complex on Walden Glen Drive, a man approached the vehicle of 32-year-old Benjamin Rois-Urive and asked for the time.

Then the man pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and demanded money.

Rois-Urive said he had no money, and the man fired one shot, striking Rois-Urive's right forearm. Then the man fled.

Anyone with information should call the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office's criminal investigation section at (513) 825-1500.

Police searching for missing 2-year-old

PADDOCK HILLS - Cincinnati police searched late Sunday for a 2-year-old boy after his mother reported him missing at the Park Lane Apartments.

Alexandria McCoy told police at 8:58 p.m. her son, Timothy Powell, was last seen wearing a yellow shirt, blue shorts, black socks with white stripes and no shoes in the 4200 block of Victory Parkway.

Police described him as black with a light complexion and curly hair.

She told police he apparently wandered off while she took a nap.

Police late Sunday were viewing videotape of the apartment complex in the manager's office.

Further details weren't available.

2 hurt in 2-car crash that closes interstate

ERLANGER - Two people were injured Sunday and southbound Interstate 75 was shut down for about 45 minutes after a two-vehicle traffic crash, police said.

Two adults from Bellevue were in a broken-down 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier about 2:45 p.m. when a 1985 Dodge operated by a Covington man hit the Cavalier in the rear, according to Erlanger police. The Cavalier was stopped in a striped-off area of I-75 south where it meets with Interstate 275 at the time of the accident.

The female passenger was flown by helicopter to University Hospital, and a male driver was driven there in an Erlanger ambulance.

No one else was injured. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor, according to Erlanger police.

Further details weren't available Sunday night.

Police are still investigating.