New program changing how Cincinnati police respond to calls of domestic violence
Less than two weeks before Christmas, police said 20-year-old Zachary Allart walked into a McDonald’s in Anderson Township and shot his ex-girlfriend, Jayla Frost, twice in the head before shooting the restaurant’s manager, Denise Higgins, in the back. Hours into the new year, officers found Lee Ann Smothers' dead body naked behind a dumpster in a Sharonville trailer park. They found blood coming from her nose and mouth. A prosecutor later charged her husband, Brian Smothers, with murder and abuse of a corpse. Just this time last year, police said Nicholas Roesler stabbed his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend Colleen Perry to death in the back of a car before carrying her up to a Blue Ash apartment. These are just a few of many cases of domestic violence that community leaders say are plaguing our region. Since 2015, the local nonprofit Women Helping Women has reported a 70 percent increase in domestic violence deaths. The organization aids survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.
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