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WEBVTT BRIAN: IT IS A SCENE DESCRIBEDAS HORRIFIC.NINE PEOPLE SHOT, THREE OF THEMCHILDREN.THE ADULTS ALL BROUGHT TO YOUSEE -- THE UC EMERGENCY ROOM.IT ALL STARTED AT WHAT AMOUNTSTO A BABY SHOWER WHERE THEGENDER OF THE BABY IS REVEALED.WHEN SUDDENLY TWO MEN BROKE INTHROUGH THE FRONT DOOR AN OPENEDFIRE.IT WAS VIOLENCE TIMES NINE.>> TWO GUYS JUST CAME IN ANDSHOT PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE.BRIAN: AS PANICKED CALLS COMEINTO 911.>> AT 9917 THERE'S SOMEBODYACTUALLY SHOT?>> YES.>> OK.WHO IS SHOT?>> THERE WERE KIDS HURT ANDEVERYTHING.I DON'T EVEN, I WAS SITTING INMY CAR.THEY JUST RAN IN AND STARTEDSHOOTING.THERE'S A PREGNANT GIRL HERE.THERE'S, OH MY GOD.BRIAN: POLICE SAY TWO ARMED MENENTERED THIS HOME AND BEGANSHOOTING, IT ALL TOOK LESS THANTWO MINUTES.>> WE WERE HAVING A BABY SHOWER,LIKE A REVEAL PARTY.>> OK.ARE THERE PEOPLE HURT?CAN YOU ASK?>> YES.YEAH, THERE'S PEOPLE HURT.BRIAN: ONE VICTIM AFTER ANOTHERSHOT.THREE CHILDREN, SIX ADULTS,INCLUDING 22-YEAR-OLD AUTUMGARRETT.SHE WAS HIT MULTIPLE TIMES ANDDIED AT THE SCENE.>> THIS WAS A MASS CASUALTYINCIDENT.BRIAN: FIRE AND POLICE HAD SOMANY VICTIMS, THEY PUT SPECIALPROTOCOLS INTO USE.INVESTIGATORS SAY VICTIMS ARECOOPERATIVE, PROVIDINGINFORMATION.BUT SO FAR, NO CONNECTIONBETWEEN THE SHOOTERS AND THEVICTIMS HAS BEEN RELEASED.ALSO UNKNOWN IS THE THREAT TOTHE COMMUNITY.>> I WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE INMY POSITION TO STAND UP HERE ANDTELL THE COMMUNITY THEY HAVENOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT BUT I'MNOT GOING TO PROVIDE INFORMATIONJUST TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER.WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE SUSPECTSARE OR WHY THEY DID THIS.BRIAN: OF THOSE EIGHT PEOPLE WHOWERE WOUNDED, INVESTIGATORS TELLUS NONE OF THOSE INJURIES APPEARTO BE LIF-THREATENING.COURTIS: THANKS A LOT.AS YOU LISTEN TO THE SOUND OFTHOSE 911 CALLS, YOU KNOW IT WASA CHAOTIC SCENE AS NEIGHBORSSCRAMBLED TO SAFETY, NOT SURE OFWHAT THE SHOOTERS WERE GOING TODO NEXT.NEIGHBORS WHO DID NOT WANT THEIRFACE ON CAMERA, TALKED ABOUT THEMOMENTS AFTER THE SHOOTING.>> I CAME OUT ABOUT 11:30.THEY ARE SHUT THE STREET DOWN.THEY HAVE A CUP AT THE END.THEY HAVE THIS RUBBED OFF.-- ROPED OFF.THE COP CAME UP AND ASKED IF WESAW ANYTHING.WE HAD NOT SEEN ANYTHING.>> A LITTLE UNSETTLING,ESPECIALLY SINCE ONE OF THEOFFICERS ASKED IF I HAD SECURITYCAMERAS.I DO NOT.I PROBABLY WILL BUY THE IN OFTHE WEEK.COURTIS: FEW ANSWERS ABOUT WHYTHEY STARTED SHOOTING DURINGTHAT BABY GENDER REVEAL PARTY.MANY ARE SHAKEN.DAN GRIFFIN IS IN COLERAINTOWNSHIP WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYINGTO PROCESS WHAT IS HAPPENED --HAS HAPPENED.DAN: TONIGHT THEY ARE MOURNINGLIVES LOST APPLE WHAT WASSUPPOSED TO BE A CELEBRATION.>> -- LIVES LOST AT WHAT WASSUPPOSED TO BE A CELEBRATION.IT'S A LITTLE UNSETTLING-- EVERYBODY'S SCREAMING AND CRYINGAND IT'S JUST ALL PANIC AND I'MEVEN SHAKING.DAN: CANDICE VERGA DESCRIBES THEHORROR SHE WALKED INTO AT THISHOUSE AROUND 11:30 LAST NIGHT.VERGA SAYS SHE WAS AT THE HOMEEARLIER IN THE DAY, WHERE ABABY'S GENDER REVEAL PARTY WASHAPPENING.SHE NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD ENDTHIS WAY.POLICE CALL THIS A MASSSHOOTING.NINE PEOPLE SHOT IN ONE ROOM,INCLUDING CHILDREN 2, 6, ANDEIGHT YEARS OLD.22-YEAR-OLD AUTUM GARRETT FROMINDIANA DIED.FAMILY MEMBERS SAY A WOMAN,PREGNANT WITH THE BABY THEY WERECELEBRATING, WAS SHOT IN THELEG, AND LOST THE BABY.NEIGHBOR CHEYENNE SIZEMORE WON'TFORGET THOSE HAUNTING SOUNDS.>> IT WAS PRETTY QUICKSUCCESSION, IT WAS ONE AFTER THEOTHER, LIKE THEY WENT IN THEREAND THEY UNLOADED AS MANYBULLETS AS THEY POSSIBLY COULDAND THEN RAN OFF.DAN: SHE CALLED 911 IMMEDIATELY,WITNESSING TRAGEDY FROM HERFRONT YARD.>> HAVING IT HAPPEN RIGHT ACROSSFROM MY HOUSE WAS TERRIFYINGDAN: POLICE AREN'T SURE IF THISWAS A TARGETED ATTACK.BUT VERGA SAYS JUSTICE IS TOP OFMIND.>> WHOEVER DID THIS, I HOPE THEYGET CAUGHT AND THEY FRY, FORREAL.DAN: RIGHT NOW THERE ARE NODESCRIPTIONS FOR SUSPECTS ORGETAWAY VEHICLES.INVESTIGATORS ARE ENCOURAGINGPEOPLE TO LOCK THEIR DOORS,LIGHT UP THEIR YARDS AND INSTALLSURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS. IN COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, DAN

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At least one person is dead and eight others are injured -- including three children -- after a late night shooting in Colerain Township.The shooter or shooters ran from the scene and have not been caught, police said.Police said Autum Garrett, 24, of Huntington, Indiana, died in the shooting.Eight others were injured.Three children, ages 8, 6 and 2, are being treated at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center.The University of Cincinnati Medical Center is treating five adult victims. All eight victims are expected to recover, authorities said.A family member tells WLWT News 5 that a pregnant woman was shot in the leg and lost her baby. She has been treated and released from the hospital.The shooting happened at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 9900 block of Capstan Drive.Family friend Candice Verga told WLWT News 5's Dan Griffin she had been at the party earlier in the day. She described it as "positive" and "happy."When she heard the shots fired, she ran back to the house to help."Everybody's screaming and crying and it's just all panic and I'm even shaking and everything," Verga told WLWT.Colerain Township Police's public information officer Jim Love told WLWT News 5's Karin Johnson the victims are family and friends who were gathered for a gender reveal party.Love said it is not clear yet what the motive is for the shooting. "As of right now, I do not know what instigated this," Love said. "I do not know how this got started."Neighbors said the shooting started during the gender reveal party.When Verga got to the house, she found a horrific scene."I seen the little boy on the floor and I grabbed him ... everybody else was tending to everybody, but he was laying there crying, so I wrapped up my shirt ... first thing is put pressure, and then we carried him outside," Verga said.Authorities said they believe there are two shooters who wore hoodies during the shooting.Colerain Township police also believe two handguns were used.Across the street, neighbor Cheyenne Sizemore heard what she believed were six to seven gunshots."It was pretty quick succession, it was one after the other, like they went in there and they unloaded as many bullets as they possibly could and then ran off," Sizemore said.Love told Johnson the police responded quickly. "Immediately the scene was secured. And then as soon as it was secured, the EMTs were right around the corner. They were immediately called in," Love said.Love confirmed detectives are with the victims who are being treated at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. "Hopefully there we can get some more information and descriptions, all the information we need to be able to proceed to continue this investigation, hopefully get the people who did the shooting," Love told Johnson.Colerain Township Police requested Cincinnati Police crime scene investigators help them process the scene of the shooting.Police have not released the names of those involved. WLWT will update this story as details become available.Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.