The incident report says officers were dispatched at about 8:25 p.m. to Ayers Road, where they met with two juvenile witnesses who described playing a game of “dart wars” with Nerf guns when the shots were fired.
Officers wrote in the incident report that the juvenile victim was fired at while he was running away; he was shot in the foot. When he was taken to a hospital, the bullet was found still lodged inside his foot, according to the report.
Police said while they were interviewing the juvenile witnesses, they witnessed a vehicle leaving a home owned by Joe Mixon; officers stopped the vehicle, which was occupied by two people, the incident report says.
The incident report names those two people — neither Joe Mixon — but police have repeatedly said no arrests have been made and no one is charged in the incident.
Defense attorneys Scott Croswell and Merlyn Shiverdecker are representing Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon after a Monday night shooting connected to his Anderson Twp. home, the attorneys’ law firm confirmed on Wednesday.
Members from the law firm were at Mixon’s home Wednesday afternoon. It is unclear whether Mixon was home during the shooting.
The night of the shooting, a news crew on scene saw deputies enter Mixon’s home around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday with flashlights. Police tape was taken down from the property hours later. The shooting’s incident report said that shell casings also were found in the yard of the home.
A 911 call details several men and women running around the scene of the crime when one man pulled out a gun and ran toward the back of a house yelling. From there, several shots were heard. The 911 caller also said he was “at his athlete’s house.”
“You heard him running and running down there and you heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” the 911 caller said. “Then, three other cars sped off.”
Some neighbors said they heard more than 10 gunshots.
In a letter to parents, Forest Hills School District confirmed the person injured was a Anderson High School student. The school district said the student was OK and at home.
Tracey Schaeper, who lives down the road, said she believed the shooting was a result of ongoing “Nerf wars” between kids. Nerf wars include kids running around and shooting each other with Nerf blasters, which have darts made of foam.
“They were playing ‘Nerf wars’ and apparently went into one of the neighbors’ yards back here and that neighbor opened fire. That’s what we believe to be true,” she said.
According to investigators, no arrests have been made in the shooting. It is unclear if a homeowner in the area was responsible for the shooting or if it was one of the juveniles present.
“I understand if perhaps they were, you know, encroaching onto a neighbor’s yard, absolutely tell them to get out of the yard,” Schaeper said. “But to fire rounds in the dark at teenagers that are playing a game is very scary.”
Cincinnati Bengals and Mixon’s representatives have not responded to media inquiries.
This article is by WCPO, content partners of Cox First Media.
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