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WEBVTT -- SHEREE PAOLELLO.MIKE: AND I'M MIKE DARDIS. RIGHT NOW, THE SEARCH IS ON FORTHE SHOOTER OR SHOOTERS, WHO ARERESPONSIBLE FOR THIS CRIME.AND WE'RE GETTING A BETTER IDEAOF WHAT HAPPENED AROUND 1:00THIS MORNING AT CAMEO NIGHTCLUBIN LINWOOD IN THE EAST END.HERE'S A LOOK INSIDE THE CLUB ATTHE ENTRANCE, WHERE YOU CAN SEETHERE'S SOME ITEMS TOSSEDAROUND, GIVING YOU AN IDEA OFSOME OF THE CHAOS THAT MUST HAVETAKEN PLACE AS PEOPLE RAN FORTHEIR LIVES TO GET OUT.HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW.IT WAS AROUND 1:30 THIS MORNINGWHEN POLICE BELIEVE SEVERALPEOPLE FIRED SHOTS INSIDE THEKELLOGG AVENUE NIGHTCLUB, AFTERSOME SORT OF DISPUTE ON THEDANCE FLOOR.IT WAS CROWDED WITH ABOUT 200PEOPLE INSIDE, AGES 18 AND UP.SHEREE: 27-YEAR-OLD O'BRYANSPIKE DIED AT THE SCENE.15 OTHERS WERE ALSO SHOT, THEIRCONDITIONS RANGE FROM STABLE TOCRITICAL.WE'VE ALSO LEARNED SEVERALPEOPLE WERE HURT RUNNING AWAY,BUT THEY DID NOT NEED MEDICALASSISTANCE.RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE NO ARRESTS,BUT WITNESSES ARE BEINGENCOURAGED TO COME FORWARD TOPOLICE.WE HAVE TEAM COVERS TONIGHT OFTHIS DEADLY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING.MIKE: REPORTERS LOOKING INTO THEINVESTIGATION.HOW LOCAL OFFICERS HELP SAVESOME LIVES.WE BEGAN WITH TODD DYKES, LIVEAT THE SCENE.TODD: RIGHT NOW, HERE IS THECAMEO NIGHTCLUB.AS I FROM THIS DRIVING RAIN,THINGS ARE MUCH DIFFERENT.THE MAYOR CALLS THE PEOPLE WHOOPENED FIRE ON THIS CLUB AREEVIL AND THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUSCRIME.A MASS SHOOTING IN MIDDLE OF THENIGHT.>> THE BAR WAS VERY CROWDED,POSSIBLY ONE OF PEOPLE.TODD: THE POLICE CHIEF DESCRIBEWHAT HAPPENED.>> SEVERAL MEN GOT IN CAP --SOME KIND OF US TO CREATE ITESCALATED INTO SHOTS BEING FIREDFROM SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS.TODD: AS THE GUNFIGHT UNFOLDED,CLUBGOERS SEARCHED FORSHELTERED.50 PEOPLE WERE SHOT BY BULLETS.27-YEAR-OLD BRIAN -- O'BRYANSPIKE WAS KILLED.WHY THE DISPUTE ENDED WITHGUNFIRE IN A CLOSE -- CROWDEDCLUB REMAINS EMPTY.-- UNSEEN.>> I CONTINUE TO SAY, YES, GUNSKILL PEOPLE, BUT PEOPLE KILLPEOPLE.TODD: IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSEIF NOT FOR OFF-DUTY POLICEOFFICERS PATROLLING THE CLUB.NO ARRESTS AT THIS POINT.I ASKED THE CHIEF IF ONE OF THESHOOTERS IS AT THE HOSPITAL WITHINJURIES.THE TEXT IS SIMPLY DO NOT KNOW.TODD DYKES, WLWT NEWS 5.MIKE DO THEY KNOW HOW THEY GOTTHE GUNS INSIDE THE PLACE?TODD: CHIEF ISAAC SAYS THE CLUBOWNERS PAT THEM DOWN, BUT IT ISPOINT THEY ARE NOT SURE HOW THEGUNS GOT IN.THEY MADE IT INSIDE, AND AS ARESULT ONE MAN IS DEAD AND TWOPEOPLE ARE IN CRITICALCONDITION.MIKE DEFINITELY A SHOW OF FORCETHERE.WE HAVE HEARD THE SCENEDESCRIBED AS CHAOTIC.WHAT IS ZERO IMPRESSION OF THEPOLICE RESPONSE?-- YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE POLICERESPONSE?TODD: THEIR TRAINING KICKED INQUICKLY.POLICE WENT INSIDE THE CLUBOVERNIGHT, SECURED THE SCENE INA HURRY SO THAT FIREFIGHTERSCOULD GO IN AND DO THEIR BEST TOSAVE LIVES WITHOUT BEING WORRIEDABOUT THEIR OWN SAFETY.

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Sixteen people were shot -- one fatally -- inside of a Cincinnati nightclub Sunday morning. O'Bryan Spikes, 27, died in the shooting. At least 16 others were shot.The shooting was reported just after 1 a.m. at Cameo nightclub on Kellogg Avenue in Linwood. Police believe that multiple people fired shots. No arrests have been made. Spikes' family told WLWT News 5 that they were in shock over the man's death. Spikes was a father and junior college student who came to the club often, they said."The bar was very crowded, approximately a couple hundred people," Isaac said. "Several local men got into some type of a dispute inside the bar, and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals." "This is a tragedy that has struck other communities, and now it has struck Cincinnati," Mayor John Cranley said. "I'm confident that while our hearts are broken, that our spirit is not."Why the dispute ended with gunfire in a crowded club remains unclear."There's no reason that anyone should ever feel like they could go into a club, shoot a club up, because they're upset with someone who disrespected them or otherwise hurt them earlier in the day," Cincinnati Councilwoman Yvette Simpson said. "So I continue to say, yes, guns kill people, but people kill people."Related: 'Horrific:' Cincinnati leaders weigh in on Cameo shooting“We are in the middle of a very horrific situation that occurred at the nightclub with multiple victims,” Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate said. University of Cincinnati Medical Center treated a total of nine shooting victims.Two victims remain in critical condition, three are listed as stable. Four victims have been treated and released.Christ Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital each treated two victims with minor injuries, who were able to leave on Sunday.One victim walked in to Mercy Health Hospital, Anderson with a gunshot wound. A single victim also walked into Mercy Health Hospital, West with a minor injury, not a gunshot wound. Both victims have been discharged, according to Mercy Health.City officials have asked anyone who knows anything about the shooting inside Cameo nightclub to step forward and share what they know."We can't let the bad guys win," Cranley said. "We can't let the evil who pull out a gun in a crowded club and start shooting innocent people to not be punished for their crimes. ... You have innocent people shot, just for going out to have a good time. That's totally unacceptable. It's totally evil."One witness told WLWT News 5 that he heard the club's DJ call for security about 10 minutes before the shooting.FULL NEWS CONFERENCE: 17 shot, 1 fatally, in Cincinnati nightclub shootingSurveillance cameras were inside the club at the time of the shooting, police said, and investigators are viewing the tapes. Neudigate added that Sunday morning’s shooting was one of the largest shooting cases that he has worked in his 27-plus years with the department. Cameo nightclub has had several issues in the past, authorities said. The club allows admission to anyone over the age of 18 on certain days, and is open until 4 a.m. on Saturdays.“We are aware of it. It has had some challenges in the past,” Neudigate said. Police said there were two shootings at the nightclub in 2015: one on New Year's Day, when someone was shot in the foot, and another in September, when a shooting victim was found in the parking lot.Isaac said Cameo is a large establishment, and it employs off-duty police officers to patrol the parking lot. Photos: Mass shooting at Cincinnati's Cameo Night Club“It is my understanding that they do wand individuals and pat them down,” Isaac said of the club’s security measures. “However, what we know at this point, several firearms were able to be brought inside the bar.”Dan Hils, president of Cincinnati's Fraternal Order of Police, said the situation could have been worse if not for the four off-duty police officers keeping an eye on the club's parking lot."People are running away because they have the natural fear, because shots are being fired," Hils said. "Our people are running in. And that makes you very, very proud."The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is helping Cincinnati police with the investigation.Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the shooting death, he tweeted Sunday. The next scheduled press briefing will be Monday morning in Council Chambers.Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040 or on their website.