CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich stopped here today

. Mayor Frank Jackson and other political and civic leaders were on hand to cheer news that Opportunity Corridor, a long-anticipated boulevard between Interstate 490 and University Circle, would be getting a boost from revenues generated by Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan.

But as a television reporter noted during Kasich's huddle with media afterward, the feel-good event at Orlando Baking Co. would not be leading evening newscasts.

The reporter asked Kasich for his thoughts on the weekend discoveries in East Cleveland, where bodies of three dead women were found wrapped in plastic.

Suspect Michael Madison

after being charged with three counts of aggravated murder and three counts of kidnapping.

In a news conference earlier in the day, Mayor Gary Norton said one of the victims

as Angela Deskins, 38, of Cleveland. Autopsies have been completed on all three victims, but two others remain unidentified.

has Northeast Ohio in an international spotlight once again. In May, three women escaped from a Cleveland home after being missing for roughly a decade.

"It’s just heartbreaking," Kasich said of the East Cleveland case. "It was heartbreaking when we had the last announcement. Fortunately, somehow through the grace of God, those women

."

Kasich added: "This is what happens when you have poverty. It's what happens when you have individuals who are very dangerous inside the community and somehow lose track of them. It’s about breakdown of neighborhoods, sometimes, where, you know, we don’t always know our neighbors. There's so much to it.

"But poverty, to me, is kind of at the core of it. And that’s why I feel so strongly that no neighborhood can be left behind. That’s why I feel so strongly about the fact that when you start doing better, everyone has to share in the growth. Everyone has to share in the good things. And that’s why no one in Ohio isn't important and no one in Ohio shouldn’t be in a position of being lifted at times when they're not hitting on all cylinders to a point to where they can have a secure job and a great family and a great neighborhood."