First Place, Spot News - Large Market - Marshall Gorby / Dayton Daily NewsAurielle Shorter is restrained by police as she reacts to news that her 4-month-old son was killed in a fire that also injured her grandmother inside their duplex on North Kilmer Street in Dayton.
Second Place, Spot News - Large Market - Sam Greene / Cincinnati EnquirerState Senator Cecil Thomas, left, and bystanders look for help as they to tend to a 19-year-old shooting victim across from Findlay Market, where has was shot during three-person shootout in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. The victim was transported to the hospital where he died of his injuries. Thomas was in the neighborhood as he was taking part in peace march through the neighborhood just moments before the gunfire.
Third Place, Spot News - Large Market - Lisa DeJong / The Plain DealerCharles Wakefield, 38, whose birthday is today, cries tears of grief for his 5-month-old daughter Aavielle Wakefield who was shot and killed while riding as a passenger in a car last night. Wakefield, his wife Ieshia Wakefield and area pastors gathered at the sight where paramedics tried to revive the baby. This is the third child to be gunned down in a month in Cleveland.
