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Allen: Grand jury sending a message
By Sharon Turco and Robert Anglen
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Todman Emmons (left) and Rick Wiggins, both of Northside, sit at Junker's Tavern on Friday. Earlier they had testified before a grand jury about the shooting of a robbery suspect last week at the tavern.
(Jeff Swinger photos)
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Harold McKinney didn't do anything wrong when he shot a robbery suspect in a Northside bar last week, a Hamilton County grand jury determined Friday.
The grand jury ignored charges of felonious assault and carrying a gun in a liquor establishment brought by Cincinnati police against McKinney, a member of Citizens on Patrol.
The shooting victim and his accomplice, accused of robbing Junker's Tavern at gunpoint May 8, didn't get off so easy.
The men, both 18 and from Walnut Hills, were each charged with nine counts of robbery, and one was charged with having a weapon when he was not allowed to have one.
McKinney, 54, was not on patrol at the time.
More than 500 members of the Citizens on Patrol Program walk the streets of 21 Cincinnati neighborhoods on the lookout for crime. Members are never to carry weapons or intervene in a crime in progress; however, McKinney was in the bar as a patron, not a program member.
Tony Coyne, owner of Junker's Tavern in Northside, reacts with a thumbs-up as he hears the news about Harold McKinney
Grand jury proceedings are secret, but Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen surmised members might have been trying to send a message.
"People in this community are fed up," Allen said. "This is a community that has had it with violent crime, and this individual took action."
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Allen: Grand jury sending a message
By Sharon Turco and Robert Anglen
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Todman Emmons (left) and Rick Wiggins, both of Northside, sit at Junker's Tavern on Friday. Earlier they had testified before a grand jury about the shooting of a robbery suspect last week at the tavern.
(Jeff Swinger photos)
| ZOOM |
Harold McKinney didn't do anything wrong when he shot a robbery suspect in a Northside bar last week, a Hamilton County grand jury determined Friday.
The grand jury ignored charges of felonious assault and carrying a gun in a liquor establishment brought by Cincinnati police against McKinney, a member of Citizens on Patrol.
The shooting victim and his accomplice, accused of robbing Junker's Tavern at gunpoint May 8, didn't get off so easy.
The men, both 18 and from Walnut Hills, were each charged with nine counts of robbery, and one was charged with having a weapon when he was not allowed to have one.
McKinney, 54, was not on patrol at the time.
More than 500 members of the Citizens on Patrol Program walk the streets of 21 Cincinnati neighborhoods on the lookout for crime. Members are never to carry weapons or intervene in a crime in progress; however, McKinney was in the bar as a patron, not a program member.
Tony Coyne, owner of Junker's Tavern in Northside, reacts with a thumbs-up as he hears the news about Harold McKinney
Grand jury proceedings are secret, but Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen surmised members might have been trying to send a message.
"People in this community are fed up," Allen said. "This is a community that has had it with violent crime, and this individual took action."
The Whole Story
Sometimes the good guys do win!
