Jhonny Jesus Mercado-Perez, a 26-year-old man, was found shot in the pre-dawn hours of October 12, 2025, on the 5000 block of Hawaiian Terrace in Cincinnati’s Mt. Airy neighborhood. Officers responding around 4 a.m. discovered him with a gunshot wound; despite emergency efforts by police and Cincinnati Fire, he died at the scene. He was publicly identified the following day as the investigation shifted from a frantic response to a hunt for leads.
Detectives canvassed the complex and su
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