CINCINNATI — An arrest has been made in a Mt. Healthy homicide that occurred New Year's Day, according to police.
Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey and Mt. Healthy Police Chief Jerome Deidescheimer said Aaron McFarland, 38, was found in Madisonville and taken into custody without incident Sunday evening by the HCSO Fugitive Task Force. McFarland has been charged with aggravated murder.
In court on Monday, a judge ordered him held on a $250,000 bond.
Mount Healthy police said they responded on New Year's Day to the 7600 block of Hamilton Avenue for reports of shots fired. Hamilton County sheriff's deputies said the initial call was about a vehicle that was hit by a bullet while heading north on Hamilton.
Police didn't find any victims in that area, but police said 27-year-old Curtis Long self-transported himself to UC Medical Center with gunshot wounds.
Long died at the hospital, deputies said.
Another man called 911 to report the shooting. He wanted to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety.
The man driving home on Hamilton Avenue at the time of the shooting said a bullet went through his car door.
“I opened the door and saw that the bullet had passed through the door and into my daughter’s car seat and passed along a path that would’ve absolutely killed my daughter,” he said. “It passed through her car seat and lodged itself in the rear passenger side door. The police just pulled the slug out of the door this morning.”
He said he wants something to be done to improve safety in Mount Healthy.
“That’s the motivation for me talking right now. Like, this is Mount Healthy? This is what Mount Healthy is?” he said. “What’s the city council gonna do about this? What’s gonna happen? Is this just how things are gonna go?”
This was the second shooting in less than 24 hours in the area. Just down the road, there was another shooting outside a Mount Healthy Speedway on Monday.
On Tuesday, detectives told WCPO crews they do not believe the two shootings are related.
