On the morning of August 30, 2024, 18-year-old Ahsan Lamar Simmons was found dead in the 3700 block of Reading Road near Burton Avenue in Cincinnati’s North Avondale neighborhood. Police responded around 7:35 a.m. to reports of an unresponsive person and discovered Simmons with a gunshot wound to his back; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

This was the second shooting on that block within about 12 hours; the previous evening a man in his 30s was shot in the chest and hospitalized in serious condition, and authorities had detained a suspect for questioning in that earlier case. Simmons, known as Hassan, was a Cincinnati native who attended the Dr. O’dell Owens Center for Learning, had just started his first job at a Mexican restaurant, and enjoyed rap music, video games, walks, and time with family. He is survived by parents Michael Simmons and Lorna Cave and multiple siblings and extended relatives.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cincinnati Police Homicide Unit at 513-352-3542.