First Place, Spot News - Kurt Steiss / The Blade, "Shooting"Alfreada Radford Tucker, grandmother of Lamar Richardson, is distraught as she approaches the police line as people gather near the scene of an officer-involved shooting near LaGrange and Hudson streets in Toledo on July 27, 2018. Richardson, the 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by police, was described by Toledo Police as a “person of interest” in multiple robberies. Police fired at him after he “produced a weapon.”
Second Place, Spot News - Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch, "Ice Protestor"Columbus Police try to reason with a protestor who was attached to the bottom of a wooden tripod before removing it at a demonstration protesting the government agency ICE. The protestors had set up a wooden tripod to block traffic and erected a sign with a protestor atop to call attention to the policies of ICE. Both protesters as all as some from the crowd nearby were arrested.
Third Place, Spot News - Samantha Madar / Central Michigan University, "Embrace "A Toledo pice officer hugs a grieving woman near the scene of an officer involved shooting near Lagrange and Hudson streets in Toledo on July 27, 2018. The shooting, which ended the life of Lamar Richardson, who was killed by a Toledo police officer, caused a large crowd to gather at the scene.
Award of Excellence, Spot News - Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer, "Cincinnati mass shooting"A woman, whose father was killed in a deadly shooting at Fountain Square, is comforted by authorities stationed outside the University of Cincinnati Medical Center's Emergency room following a mass shooting in downtown Cincinnati that left at least four dead and several injured, Sept. 6, 2018, in Cincinnati.
