WEST CHESTER, Ohio — A 22-year-old is dead after a shooting in West Chester Thursday night.
The Butler County Coroner's Office said Keshon Sanders was shot in a car at the Meadow Ridge Apartments before 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Sanders was taken to West Chester Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police received several 911 calls about the incident.
“I just heard like five or six gunshots,” said one 911 caller. “I ran and got my kids out of their room and we got in the kitchen on the floor.”
"I was in my room,” said another. “I heard six shots, six to ten shots."
Some neighbors said they are on alert after what happened.
“The first thing I thought was ‘I hope my kids weren't outside, which I knew they weren’t,” said Taylor, who lives up the street from where the shooting happened. “Just scary to think that you can just be living your regular life and then something like this just happens.”
Police are urging anyone with information to come forward.
“If you know anything, don't assume that somebody else has told us please come forward and let us know,” said West Chester Police Capt. Seth Hagaman. “This doesn't happen a lot.”
West Chester officials said this is the second homicide investigation in the township this year. The first was determined to be self-defense.
It was just about a month ago that residents of the complex were rocked by another tragedy. An apartment fire at the Meadow Ridge Apartments killed two children and injured two others.
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