Nine-year -old Black girl killed in Cleveland by a stray bullet to the head following a shootout, Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition calling for "swift attention by city of Cleveland and law enforcement officials as to the matter and for violence against women, girls, and children to cease".... Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is livid....The murder rate in Cleveland is 37 per 100,000, research reveals, and Cleveland, notorious for the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell, is ranked by Forbes as the fifth most deadliest city in the nation.... The largely Black city has tallied some 61 unsolved murders of women dating back to 2004, data show.....By ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com,Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - Nine-year-old Saniyah Nicholson died of a gun shot wound to the head after being shot on Wednesday about 7:30 pm while sitting in her mother's car at the scene of a shootout on Cleveland's largely Black east side on Lee Road near Cloverside Avenue in Ward 1.
At least some of the alleged assailants, all of them Black men, remain at large, police said.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner confirmed the identity of the girl, who was Black and a resident of Maple Heights, a Cleveland suburb.
Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Cleveland-based Imperial Women Coalition, called for "swift attention by city of Cleveland and law enforcement officials as to the matter and for violence against women, girls, and children to cease."
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, flanked by Police Chief Calvin Williams, was livid.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, flanked by Police Chief Calvin Williams, was livid.
"To those who have perpetrated this crime and [caused] other deaths of innocents, we will not tolerate this and will arrest you and prosecute you," said Jackson at a press conference on Thursday.
Witnesses purportedly told Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones and police that the girl was seated in her mother's Chrysler when the gunfire erupted and a stray bullet hit her in the head. She died later at University Hospital's Rainbow and Babies Children's Hospital.
According to police reports, the girl's mother parked to pick up her tennage son at DNA Level Boxing Club and the girl, in the car with her adult sister, was killed when her mother went inside to get him.
Councilman Jones allegedly told police that witnesses said the shootout was between a group outside of the gym and a group in a car, both groups allegedly exchanging gun fire that resulted in the tragic incident.
The murder rate in Cleveland is 37 per 100,000, research reveals, and Cleveland, notorious for the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell, is ranked by Forbes as the fifth most deadliest city in the nation relative to its murder rate.
The largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland had 128 homicide deaths in 2017, authorities said, and they are mounting for this year. It has tallied some 61 unsolved murders of women dating back to 2004, data show.
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