Malcom Allen, a 19-year-old Black male, was shot in the middle of the day on November 5, 2015, in Cincinnati’s Pleasant Ridge neighborhood. Just after 12:40 p.m., gunfire erupted outside an apartment building near Silverleaf Avenue and Montgomery Road. Responding officers and medics rushed him from the scene to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries later that day, the coroner confirming his death and identity soon afterward.
News accounts from that evening into the following morning described a tense investigation with few public details. Police did not announce a motive or name any suspects, and initial statements indicated they were still seeking information about who fired the shots that killed Allen. No immediate arrests were reported in the aftermath, and authorities did not release further suspect descriptions at that time.
In the days that followed, his name appeared among the year’s shooting victims memorialized by community and remembrance sites that record lives lost to gun violence. These notices reiterated his age, the date and place of his death, and invited remembrances from those who knew him. His funeral arrangements were handled locally, with services later that month, underscoring the swift and wrenching turn from an ordinary weekday to a family gathering in grief.
