CLEVELAND — Cleveland police confirm they had arrested two people and are working to identify more suspects Friday following a shooting that injured a man and killed a 3-year-old boy.
As of Saturday, September 30, the two individuals arrested have been identified as 30-year-old Katherine Treadway and 34-year-old Juan Davis.
An arrest warrant has been issued for 28-year-old Devonte Parker in connection to the shooting.
One day later, the only signs of what happened on West 66th street are the few items left behind from the scene and the neighbors who saw the aftermath.
"The whole street's flooded with police," Aaron Peck, who has lived on the street for nearly a year, said. "I'm like, 'Whoa! What's going on here!?'"
"Yeah, it's not right. It's not right," Mary Osmun added. "I don't know what happened down there. I have no idea what happened. But a 3-year-old? That's awful young."
Osmun has lived on this street in the Stockyards neighborhood for 30 years. She says it was just like any other neighborhood, but according to Peck, "you do hear gunshots in the evening once and a while."
Still, that's far from the shooting that happened Thursday afternoon in broad daylight.
At around 2:30pm, Cleveland police said a mother was in her car with her 11-month-old baby and his 3-year-old brother. A 31-year-old man was standing outside the car when someone fired shots, hitting him in the hip. The 3-year-old, since identified as Luis A. Diaz, was shot in the back.
"I mean, I can hear when teenagers, you know, they get at it and shoot each other sometimes," Osmun said. "But a 3-year-old? That's not right."
According to numbers released from the Cleveland Division of Police, there have been nearly 130 homicides so far this year, a 10% jump compared to this time last year. That number includes 17 children under 17 years old who have been killed, seven of whom were under the age of 9.
