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WEBVTT THEREFORE NO ONE LOST A BABY INTHE SHOOTING.THE SHOTS ECHOED THROUGH THECOLERAIN TOWNSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD.AND THE CONCERN OF KILLERS ONTHE LOOSE STILL REVERBERATING.THOSE WHO LIVE NEARBY, DID NOTWANT TO BE IDENTIFED.>> EVERYBODY IS SCARED.A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID THEY WANTTO MOVE OUT OF HERE.BRIAN: AND NOW, A NEW REVELATIONBY POLICE IS ADDING TO THEALREADY NUMEROUS QUESTIONS.POLICE SAY THE VICTIMS HAVE BEENINTENTIONALLY MISLEADING THEM.IN A STATEMENT TODAY, CHIEF MARKDENNY SAID "AS AN EXAMPLE WEWERE LED TO BELIEVE AN UNBORNCHILD WAS MURDERED IN THISINCIDENT ONLY TO FIND OUT THATWAS NOT THE CASE.THAT INFORMATION IS NOT PROVIDEDTO EMBARRASS ANYONE ONLY TOPROVIDE A FAIR UNDERSTANDING OFTHE CHALLENGES WE HAVE FACED INTHE PAST NINE DAYS."EVEN WITHIN THE FIRST HOURSAFTER THE SHOOTING,INVESTIGATORS SEEMED TO BESKEPTICAL ABOUT THE STORY THAT AWOMAN LOST A BABNOW POLICE SAY CHEYANNE WILLISMADE UP THE STORY THAT SHE WASPREGNANT, AND LIED THAT SHE LOSTTHE BABY.THE GENDER REVEAL WAS ALL ASHAM.AND WE'VE FOUND THAT'S NOT THEONLY TROUBLE WILLIS HAS HAD.SHE'S THE SAME WOMAN WHOREPORTED SHE WAS THE VICTIM OFAN ATTACK AND ROBBERY ATCINNCINNATI MILLS, POSTED ONSOCIAL MEDIA, WHERE FIVE WOMENAND HER FORMER BOYFRIEND BEAHER, TIED HER HANDS TOGETHERCUT HER HAIR, AND WROTE ON HERFACE.IN THIS LATEST ATTACK, WILLISWAS SHOT IN THE LEG.BUT AFTER ALLEGEDLY LYING TOPOLICE ABOUT THE PREGNENCY, HERROLE AS VICTIM ONLY IS BEINGCALLED INTO QUESTION.THE BEATING CASE AGAINST WILLIS,THOSE CHARGES WERE IGNORED.IT RAISES MORE QUESTIONS ABOUTWHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION FORSAYING THIS WAS A BABY REVEALPARTY?WHO KNEW ABOUT IT?COULD THERE BE MORE MOTIVATIONBEHIND ALL OF THIS QUESTION MARKPOLICE ARE CLEARLY FRUSTRATED BYALL OF THIS.

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It was supposed to be a party to reveal the gender of a baby. The problem was, there was no baby, police said Monday.False information has hindered the Colerain Township mass shooting investigation, police said Monday.Nine people were shot – one fatally – at a gender reveal party on July 8 on Capstan Drive. Autumn Garrett was killed and several children were injured, police said. A total of 14 shots were fired inside the living room of the home. The latest police report says seven adults, five women and two men, were injured.Family members said an unborn child was also killed in the shooting, but police said this information is not true.The alleged mother-to-be was not even pregnant, police said Monday.“Sadly, the police department, media and public, have been given information we have found to be is false,” officials wrote Monday in a press release. “Hours and days have been wasted following leads known to be lies when they were provided to our officers. From the very beginning of this investigation, we have met significant resistance that is uncommon from victims of crime wanting a resolution.”Police used the unborn child incident as an example of misinformation.“That information is not provided to embarrass anyone, only to provide a fair understanding of the challenges we have faced in the past nine days,” officials said.The woman who said she was pregnant and who lost her baby during the shooting is Cheyanne Willis.WLWT has learned she’s the same woman who reported she was the victim of an attack in the parking lot of Cincinnati Mills mall in January 2015.Willis said five women and her former boyfriend beat her, cut her hair and wrote on her face during a robbery. A grand jury ignored the charges in that case.The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and police are asking for the public’s help in the investigation.Police have not said what they believe the motivation is for the story about an unborn baby being involved in the shooting or how many people knew it was a sham.Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to arrests in the case.