'Make this madness stop.' Man sentenced for 2022 fatal shooting in Northside

Two men who were involved with the same woman had a confrontation two years ago outside her Northside home, and one of the men fatally shot the other.

At a sentencing Thursday for 23-year-old Dicari Brown, who was convicted of murder, Brown's attorney said it was the kind of confrontation that "in a former time" would have led to a fist fight.

Instead, both Brown and 21-year-old Tyrese Woodkins were carrying guns, attorney Gregory Coehn said. Brown shot Woodkins multiple times, including after he was on the ground.

Brown was convicted in April of charges including murder. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan sentenced him Thursday to 21 years to life in prison.

Brown had argued at trial that he acted in self-defense, but Assistant Prosecutor Kristen Kueffner said Thursday that the killing "was, in no way, self-defense." The jury, she said, agreed with that.

The shooting happened the early morning of Halloween 2022, outside the woman's home in the 4100 block of Kirby Avenue.

After imposing the sentence, Shanahan talked about the continued violence that has led to the deaths of "so many young men, day after day."

"This has to stop, at some point," Shanahan said. "We have to be the catalyst to make this madness stop."

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