Dontonyio Spruill, a 37-year-old man from Cincinnati, was shot and killed on the afternoon of November 7, 2025, when gunfire erupted along Poplar Street near Central Avenue in the city�s West End neighborhood. Police were first alerted not by a 911 call, but by a ShotSpotter notification that detected gunshots around 2:30 p.m., sending officers racing to the intersection where dense housing and busy streets meet in a tight grid.
When officers arrived, they found Spruill suffering from a
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