Shooting Deaths of Five at Cleveland Address Still Under Investigation

Authorities in Cleveland confirmed Saturday afternoon that five people were shot to death Friday night at a home on East 92nd Street, while a girl, 9, survived with a minor injury.

“Only an animal would do something like this to another human being,” Cleveland Police Chief Calving Williams reportedly stated at a Saturday morning press conference.

The Northeast Ohio Media Group/Cleveland.com was posting updates all day Saturday on the mass shooting.

NEOMG identified the dead as Sherita Johnson, 41, of 1443 E. 92nd St., and her unborn child, a man, 60, another man, 19, and a teen girl, 17.

The 9-year-old girl, evidently the only living witness to the crime other than the perpetrator(s), suffered a graze on the chest and had been released from a local hospital.

As of Saturday afternoon, police said they had no suspects or motives in the slayings, though an intense investigation was continuing.

“There’s somebody out there who knows a lot more than we know and we need that information,” Williams was quoted as saying in the NEOMG report. “We don’t want to speculate on why this happened.”

These killings apparently are not related to a double-slaying that occurred early Saturday morning near East 102nd Street and Marah Avenue. Two men, 34 and 22 years old, were found dead in a car at that location, NEOMG reported.

Police are urging anyone with information on either crime to call the Cleveland Police Homicide Unit at 216-623-5464.