COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two men have been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting at a Cincinnati nightclub that left nine people injured, police said Tuesday.
Franeek Cobb, 24, and Derrick Long, 29, were arrested Monday on charges of aggravated assault, the Cincinnati Police Department said in a news release. No attorneys for the two were listed in court records as of Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened around 1:00 a.m. Sunday inside Riverfront Live along the Ohio River on the city’s eastern edge. Police responding to reports of gunshots found nine people with gunshot wounds.
All were taken to hospitals and are in stable condition, officials said.
Police have not publicly discussed a motive or released details about what led to the shooting. The department’s homicide unit is investigating.
The FBI is assisting in the investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has previously offered a $5,000 reward for information that identifies the suspect.
The gun went off during a party to celebrate the birthday of Jermaine Tandy, also known as DJ Fresh, according to a post on his Facebook page. Executives representing Tandy said in a statement that they were “dismayed” by the violence, calling it a “senseless act.”
Witness Anton Canady told The Associated Press that he heard what sounded like a fight before shots were fired. When the people were running towards the countryside, Canady’s girlfriend fell, and she lay on top of him so she wouldn’t be stepped on.
“I don’t think they were doing it on purpose or on purpose, I don’t think anyone wanted to die there,” he said.
When he got outside, Canady discovered that his cousin was one of the people who had been shot. He said he used a cloth from a nearby car to apply pressure to the wound until first responders arrived. Later he talked to him and said “he is doing well” but he is scared.
Although it happened almost at the same time as the fatal shooting in the Austin, Texas area, an ATF spokesman earlier this week said the shooting in Cincinnati is not believed to be an act of terrorism.
Riverfront Live sits along the Ohio River, not far from the famous Riverbend Music Center, which is closed for the winter.
Parts of the building previously bore the names of Stage Forty-Three and Inner Circle, but it is best known as the former site of Annie’s, an iconic rock club that hosted some of the most popular rock and heavy metal bands of the 1990s and early 2000s.
It was renamed Riverfront Live in 2018 after attention for criminal activity.
