In an impassioned plea for the violence to end in Columbus, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said Monday that the city and the police department can t raise people s children.
The statements came two days after 16-year-old Olivia Kurtz was killed and five other teens were wounded in a shooting around 11:50 p.m. Saturday during an unauthorized DJ party at Bicentennial Park along the Scioto River. Put the guns down, Ginther urged at the press conference outside City Hall, less than a mile from the still active crime scene.
Olivia Kurtz was an honor roll student who studied Japanese
Minutes before Ginther spoke, Columbus City school leaders spoke about Kurtz, an honors student who studied Japanese, and the classmates who are mourning her loss.