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Coast Guard finds body in Maumee River
TOLEDO, Ohio — Authorities are working to identify a body they located in the Maumee River near east Toledo Tuesday morning. In a Toledo police report, law enforcement said the US Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Maumee River near Mondelēz International at approximately 11:45 a.m. when they located and recovered a body.
Shots fired at south Toledo homes Tuesday
TOLEDO, Ohio — Police are investigating an incident in which two south Toledo homes were struck by gunfire Tuesday night. According to a Toledo police report, officers responded to the 1800 block of Airport Highway after receiving a call regarding shots fired. Police arrived at the location, where they said two homes in the same block had been struck by gunfire.
Good Samaritan in boat rescues kayaker who fell into Maumee River
TOLEDO, Ohio — A kayaker was rescued by a good Samaritan in a boat after falling into the Maumee River Sunday evening. According to Toledo police, they responded to 4 Main Street in east Toledo just before 7 p.m. after a 37-year-old fell into the river while in a kayak.
Crime Stoppers seeking information on 2022 North Toledo murder
Toledo police are seeking information about the shooting death of a 27-year-old man who was killed outside of a bar at Elm and East Hudson streets in North Toledo in 2022. Melvin Thomas, Jr., was attending a birthday party for his girlfriend in the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 2022, when three masked suspects approached and opened fire on the partygoers standing outside, witnesses told police said at the time. Mr. Thomas was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Crime Stopper program at 419-255-1111. Callers may remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward.
Jury to decide fate of two charged with killing teens
The aggravated murder case against two men accused of killing two teenaged boys in late 2022 after others lured them to a South Toledo house to confront one boy about a stolen gun was handed to a trial jury Tuesday evening. Defense lawyers’ and prosecutors summations concluded a trial day during which two defense witnesses testified, two others declined on self-incrimination grounds, and a Lucas County Common Pleas judge excluded a fifth that the defense tried to add to the witness list at the last minute. The potential witnesses against Charles Walker, 34, and Brent Kohlhofer, 42, who cited their Fifth Amendment rights were Carrissa Eames and Don Eames, Jr., separately indicted codefendants against whom charges remain pending. In their closing arguments, defense lawyers for both Walker and Corbin Gingrich repeated their introductory assertions that the allegations against their clients were made up by the Eamses and codefendants Gingrich and Cruz Garcia, who accepted plea bargains and turned state’s evidence, to hide their own direct roles in the boys’ deaths.
Woman dies after red-light crash in South Toledo
A South Toledo woman whose vehicle struck another after she ran a red light at Hill Avenue and Byrne Road late Saturday afternoon died that evening at a nearby hospital, authorities said. Daneasha Watson, 31, of the 2300 block of Victory Avenue, was pronounced dead at the University of Toledo Medical Center about three hours after the crash that was reported at 5:28 p.m. Saturday. A Toledo Police Department statement said Ms. Watson entered the intersection with a red light and while an oncoming vehicle driven by Autumn Twining, 19, of Springfield Township was completing a left turn begun before the light changed. Ms. Watson’s vehicle flipped, hit a pole, and landed right-side up, police said. Neither Ms. Twining nor her two teenaged passengers were injured, police said. The police report did not specify the vehicles’ direction of travel.
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