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WEBVTT TNESS WE SPOKE WITHSAYS JACOBS TOLD HIM HE WASGOING TO SHOOT HER.>> AS SOON AS I GRAB A CUP, IHEAR POW, POW.>> BEFORE GRABBING HIS MORNINGCUP OF COFFEE AT OUR DAILYBREAD, A WITNESS, WHO DID NOTWANT TO SHOW HIS FACE, SAYS HEHEARD GUNSHOTS ECHO THROUGHOUTTHE SOUP KITCHEN INOVER-THE-RHINE.>> WHEN THE BULLETS STARTEDFLYING MAN, IT WAS SO CHAOTIC INTHERE LIKE, WHO? THE SCARIEST PART IS YOU DIDN'TKNOW WHAT, WHO WAS SHOOTING.>> AS THESE PICTURES SHOW,CINCINNATI POLICE QUICKLYLOCATED AND ARRESTED THE GUNMAN,43-YEAR-OLD ROBERT JACOBS.POLICE SAY HE SHOT AND KILLEDDEANTE MATTOCKS A VIOLENT END TOWHAT STARTED AS A FIST FIGHTOVER A WOMAN.>> WHEN I DOVE BEHIND THE DESK,I SEE THE GUY COMING TOWARDS ME.THE SHOOTER NOTICED THE VICTIMWHO HAPPENED TO SOMEHOW COMEBEHIND ME.SO HE CAME ALL THE WAY UP TO MEAND SAID, "SIR, MOVE. I'M ABOUT TO SHOOT THIS[BLEEP].">> POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THEWOMAN'S NAME BUT SAY SHE'SEXPECTED TO SURVIVE.AND WITH MORE THAN ONE HUNDREDPEOPLE INSIDE, WITNESSES ARETHANKFUL NO ONE ELSE WAS HURT INTHIS VERY PUBLIC ATTACK.IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSERBECAUSE HE SHOT LIKE 8 TIMESJUST IN THE AIR AND THOSE COULDHAVE BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDSSOMEBODY.>> WE DO HAVE SOME DISGRUNTLEDPROBLEMS, BUT, NOTHIN' LIKETHIS.>> IN ADDITION TO MURDER ANDFELONY ASSAULT CHARGES, ROBERTJACOBS WAS ALSO CHARGED WITHWEAPONS UNDER DISABILITY

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There were bullets instead of bread at the start of the day in an Over-the-Rhine soup kitchen where one man was killed and a woman was critically wounded. The shots rang out shortly after 8:30 a.m., when the doors to Our Daily Bread open. The suspected shooter, Robert Jacobs, 43, walked in with about a hundred or so other people and began firing, police said. The gunshots sent staff members, volunteers and patrons running for cover, ducking under tables and bolting for the rear door. "People come here for food, they come here for shelter,” pastor Peterson Mingo, who was nearby at the time and heard the shots, said. "For something like this to happen here, you know, it's unimaginable." Witnesses said the shooter first opened up on Deante Mattocks, 28, then shot the woman they were at odds over, then fired again at the same man. Police arrested him outside a moment later. "There was no incident in the apprehension,” according to Lt. Steve Saunders, of Cincinnati Police. “He was cooperating, submitting to his arrest." FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: Man shot at Over-The-Rhine soup kitchen The staff at Our Daily Bread was shaken by the sudden spasm of violence, which occurred in a place where the homeless, jobless, mentally ill, marginalized, elderly, and day laborers all congregate for meals, assistance and fellowship. Regulars told us that disputes and eruptions occur at times, but nothing to this magnitude. "Tensions rise, it's cold, no money and people have a tendency to act out,” Ron Carter, a veteran who has been coming to the soup kitchen for 30 years, said. He was walking toward the building to chat and play cards with veterans like himself when the gunshots rang out. "I mean, you've got 400 people who are all having a tough time of it,” stated Georgine Getty, the executive director. “Usually it's a place of peace and safety, and people have a good meal and just hang out." She noted a bullet hole in one of the windows, saying that bullet just missed the head of a volunteer about to serve meals to seniors. Some said the fight over the woman who was shot had been going on since at least the middle of the night. Police said the woman is expected to survive her injuries. A witness, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the suspect headed his way looking for the woman. "When I dove behind the desk, I see the guy coming towards me," the witness said. "The shooter noticed the victim who happened to somehow come behind me. So he came all the way up to me and said 'Sir, move, I'm about to shoot this .'" There were numerous shots fired in what was a personal, end-of-the-rope flurry of gunfire, a violent crime of passion for which there is frequently no warning. "We try to be vigilant,” Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, who came to the scene, said. “But you can't predict situations like this, no matter how hard you try." In the cold, morning air, stunned onlookers spoke about the bloodshed and the sudden tensions at a place committed to help those on the margins and well below. “It could've been a lot worse,” Sammarco said Police were talking with more than two-dozen witnesses. “I knew it was a gunshot I turned and saw my friend on the ground laying there holding his stomach,” Ronald Amos, who witnessed the shooting, said. “I’m homeless and everybody you see right here is family to me because we’re always around each other and we met him and he became part of our family,” Amos added. Getty indicated that Our Daily Bread would be closed for a few days to allow time for consideration of security improvements and to give staff some space to decompress. There also won’t be Kids Club at the building this week. “We plan to re-open as soon as we can,” Getty said. Jacobs is in police custody charged with murder felonious assault and having weapons under disability.