Hill was a recent graduate of Fairfield High School, where he played football, and he planned to play at Independence Community College in Kansas. He was killed in the second shooting fatal shooting in Liberty Twp. in less than two days.
Romel Velasquez, 18, of Cincinnati, was arrested and charged with murder and two counts of felonious assault. He was video arraigned in Butler County Area II Court, where bond was set at $750,000.
Later in the investigation, Moody was also charged with felonious assault for allegedly being a second shooter in the incident.
Frantic neighbors heard gunshots, a caller at the scene screamed and prayed and one caller reported a big fight was about to happen in the calls received by dispatchers. In one, the caller is difficult to hear but says “There’s about to be a big fight, I saw it (on) social media.”
The dispatcher asks if the location is Liberty Park, and the caller says “Yep.” The caller says he does not know if anyone involved would have weapons.
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Deputies were en route to the park due to the call when shots were fired, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
A female caller said she head about five gunshots in the park or in the apartment complex nearby. Another female caller told dispatchers a person had been shot and a car “sped away” from the park located on Yankee Road toward Cincinnati-Dayton Road.
“There are still two (cars) in the parking lot in the back,” the caller told the dispatcher. “There is definitely still a fight, you can hear it. Somebody is going to get killed.”
In a three-minute call from the shooting scene, a male caller screams in anguish, “Antaun, get up please. Oh, my God.”
Through loud screaming and crying from multiple people, a person says, “A man got shot. Please God, please, God please, God please.”
The first incident happened at about 5:23 a.m. Tuesday when a group met at the same park in what investigators say was a plan for a vehicle theft. A fight ensued, and the victim was shot and killed on a nearby street.
The victim was identified by the Butler County Coroner’s Office as Khalic Milton of Cincinnati, but she identified as Riah Milton.
Milton was found dead in the 6000 block of Spruce Creek Drive. The suspects drove away in Milton’s purple Camaro that was later ditched in West Chester Twp.
Two teens have been arrested in Tuesday’s incident, and a warrant has been issued for a third man. Kaleb Marshall Tooson, 18, of Liberty Twp. was arrested on charges of murder and aggravated robbery, and he was also shot during the encounter. He was video arraigned Wednesday in Area II Court, where bond was set at $500,000.
A 14-year-old girl, who is a Lakota East student, was arrested on charges of complicity to aggravated robbery, complicity to murder and tampering with evidence.
Deputes were continuing Friday to look for Tyree Jeffery Cross, 25, of Cincinnati, who is sought on charges of complicity to murder, complicity to aggravated robbery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Detectives were still looking for Cross as of Thursday afternoon.
Officials say the incidents are not related.
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