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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A teenage girl is dead, five other young people were wounded and two others injured in a mass shooting late Saturday night at a music party promoted
Updated: 2:14 PM EDT May 24, 2021
The mayor, along with Interim Police Chief Michael Woods and Deputy Chief Tim Becker with the Columbus Division of Police, held a press conference Monday to provide an update on the shooting.
You can watch the briefing below:
Deputy Chief Woods said dispatchers started receiving calls Saturday night around 10 p.m. regarding noise complaints at the park.
Police described the gathering as a pop-up party that was not sanctioned by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.
By 10:39 p.m., more calls complained of a larger crowd and there was some kind of a disturbance, but no information regarding violence or assaults.
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.