All right, Billy Cunningham, The Grand America is back in about thirty minutes.
I will discuss where I've been in the past two weeks and the impact
you said. If you're on my Twitter accounting all you had a pretty good
idea what happened and involved me riding a camel. That's all I can say.
And the People's Judge also in the back of a camel. Coming up
later is Jilly Gunlock of the Independent Women's Form and more and Brian Hamrick.
Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Brian, if you ever warned,
ever ever got on the back of a camel and just went nuts on
the back of a camera? Ever ever do that? Thanks again, mister
Cunningham. No, I do not believe I had been on the back of
a camel. What'd you get on the back of a camel if you had
to? But if you didn't have one help, I would do it,
especially if I needed that mode of transportation. They still the camel was still
a viable mode of transportation in some parts of the world, and I think
it's still the best way to get around in some places. Well, if
you're in a desert area, there's nothing like a camel. And this camel,
of course, he had some flatulence and some spitting, but other than
the spitting and the flatulence, it was a good camel. And a little
story before we talk about uptown rental property, and also what happened in Norwood
is that, of course, I'm on the Mount of Olives. I'm looking
my right. There's downtown, the dome, and there's the old city.
And this guy went like a little parking lot area, beautiful area of Jerusalem.
And the camel driver comes up and there's this huge truck and out the
back of the truck down the ramp comes a camel and I I'm in a
cigarette. I'm in a camel. And he's yelling who want to ride my
camel? Who want to ride my camel? And I said how much is
it? He said twenty bucks? I said twenty bucks. He then said
two for twenty. I said, I get two for twenty. And I'm
a small group of twenty people from Cincinnati, and I say, who wants
to ride the camel? And the back of the crowd, I hear a
familiar voice. I'll do it, and I turn around. There comes my
one, Penny Cunningham from the back of the crowd. I said, Penny,
I call her Fred. I said, Fred, are you serious?
She said absolutely. I've never ridden a camel, and Penny's not the adventurous
type. I didn't think. So she gets on the back of the camel
and he says, you want to let go, And he let go of
the camel, and Penny's riding the camel around a parking lot, heading toward
the amount of olives. At this point, I say, Mohammed, go
get that camel. Get that camel back here. He wasn't yelled at it,
turned around, came back. She got off the camel. People are
dying laughing. I get on the back of the camel and I was looking
good. But nonetheless, assuming you've never ridden a camel, believe me,
they're much better than riding a horse. But you had a great story the
other day about what happened in Montgomery on Montgomery Road in Norwood and also the
uptown rental property shooting also in Springdale. But tell us the story of these
two women who popped the car thinking they were getting off and what happened if
anything. Yeah, well, apparently the car was stolen, according to the
police, somewhere down on Sixth Street downtown. Uh, it got spotted up
by the Norwood Lateral. There's a four fresh is there right on Montgomery Road.
Police apparently spotted it there, that's right near the police station and and
and turned on the light. They started a chase. Police say they quickly
realized that this car was going way too fast to chase up Montgomery Road,
and they they broke the chase off. I'm not exactly sure how far up
they broke it off, but it was still in sight whenever. Apparently the
car didn't slow down, and when it got up the road, we got
a witness. Guy was driving with his three year old daughter in the Brandon
Freyer was driving northbound on the Montgomery Road. He sees his car coming.
It's swerving from one side apparently clipped a rumkey truck, just barely clipped up.
Not a lot of damage to the rumpy, but it set that car
out of control and the car went across all the lanes of traffics from the
lane is supposed to be going southbound, going across the northbound lanes of traffic.
That's a four lane road there and right into the path of Brandon prayer
who's got his the little daughter in the car with him. He has to
avoid by going into the oncoming traffic of southbound to avoid her because she's in
the northbound lane. He unfortunately there was nobody in that lane. The driver
hits the curb on the northbound side, then ricochet's back over towards the VW
dealership right there, smashes into the front stairs a curb on that end,
sends the car sideways and into some poles that are sitting there, and ripped
the car into two separate pieces. They're actually three and four pieces of it
to laying everywhere, but two main separate pieces of this vehicle. Uh.
There it screeches on to fire. Uh to begin with, UM, and
two people uh are are in the vehicle. Uh, these two young ladies.
They're they're able to UM pull them out of the vehicle because it was
concerned or making fire. Uh. Police who were nearby run up to the
scene. They start working on uh this uh with the driver and uh,
but it was to no avails. She passed away. UM. The other
drive. The other person that was in the car, we've not heard.
But the victim, the young lady who who died eighteen years old, or
named Destiny Starks. She was um, you know the corner listed report today
on her. She was just about to graduate from Dawn High School. And
so she had her whole really life in front of her and and this,
you know, decides to run, taking off in this stolen car, and
just a couple of poor choices from an eighteen year old and had cost her
life unfortunately. You know, I'm reading your story that the driver, the
innocent driver here, Brandon Prayer, that's a good last name for him.
He must have been saying one was going north back in other horse, He's
going from the Volkswagen dealership north toward the freshes in the White Castle. And
he said she quote, she was coming at me head on. Man,
I'm not gonna lie. I got my baby in there. Man. I
had to yank in on the upcoming traffic. So he takes his vehicle from
the northbound lang which on the right side, he takes it into the left
hand land in the south. Because she was going close to one hundred miles
an hour. He had to be going. The police would only say high
rate of speed, but in order to chop a car in two with a
telephone pole with a one of a light pole, you have to be gone
really fast. And here's the other thing. Had that pole not stopped her,
that intersect, that's a very er Disney intersection there at the dealership.
You know, Xavier has a bookstore, a place right across the street,
some restaurants in that area, the Bowling alleys right there. I mean,
it's very busy. She may have gone right through that intersection without stopping.
And you know, fortunate for whoever may have been in that intersection, because
if she did that to her car on a pole, you can only imagine
what would happen if she'd hit another vehicle. We do we know that destiny
starts. Who was driving or was a passing? Was what she had?
The passenger or the driver? Do we know? The police have not said,
but the recording from what I've been able to get from witnesses, I
believe that she was the driver and the other the passenger so to speak,
another young female. I assume it's a serious or critical condition. Yeah.
That when the police said at last gave us the update on her, they
said they had severe injuries and they were life threatening injuries to both of them
and the one passed away, and witness has told us that the one the
pass and dur had been they was making some some sounds, so they had
some hope that she may survive. But the other one, they were concerned
about her from the very second that the accident was over. Um, So,
yeah, there's hope for the other one. But according to police,
it's very serious injuries. Nor would police chase the stolen vehicle on Monday afternoon?
It's the story and this race is again the issue whether police should be
chasing vehicles like this, and and you're damned if you do, and damned
if you don't, because you don't know who's in that vehicle. You don't
know what's going on. But on the other hand, to chase vehicles down
Montgomery Road and Monday afternoon, Memorial Day afternoon, that's a that's a serious
situation. Have you discussed with Norwood Police the propriety of chasing vehicles like this?
Yeah, well, you know, I talked to him about that yesterday
and they said that this happened like very shortly. The whole distance is maybe
a mile from that Volkswagen dealership where the crash was to the frishes down on
Montgomery Road, that it's maybe a mile, but they said this chase did
not last long because they quickly realized that it was too dangerous. So I'm
not sure they didn't know exactly where they cut it off, but I did
hear on the audio from that We got the radio traffic, and you could
hear they did cut that trace off because you can hear one of the officers
saying, hey, we're gonna break the chase something like that because too fast.
I'm not sure what point that happened, but police say it was before
the crash and that they could still see the vehicle in the distance, but
it had gotten away, but the car didn't slow down. And like you
said, where the chase ends and where the person driving knows the chase ends.
You know that that's all part of that discussion. I think tough call
either way. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, and we'll
see what happens. At least the responsible parties are the ones that have suffered
most of the injuries because if stealing a Toyota Corolla, I guess in the
downtown area they were joy riding, went up to Norwood, probably got on
the lateral got off there on Montgomery Road and they were picked up as stolen
and away we go, and two lives have been profoundly affected, one dead,
one in serious condition. Another thing I monitored from AFAR was the uptown
rental shooting of Nicholas Kernan. And many times you think allowing a landscape or
someone spreading mulch for uptown rental properties is not in the game in a sense,
I cannot imagine too many individuals spreading mulch in the UC Clifton area have
lots of money in their pocket. And as we sit there this afternoon on
Tuesday, I don't think it's someone's been apprehended, but this is a this
is a big case. But it's a working man who was murdered, shot
in the head at work spreading mulch during the afternoon. Said what do we
know about Nicholas Kernan's murder at this point, Yeah, well, they're still
trying to figure out exactly what happened there and why. Nobody seems to be
able to come up with a reason why someone would want to murder this guy.
He's apparently on the job at work. Everybody had talked to says a
great guy, nicest guy ever wanted to meet. He eats and what he
does. He goes to work and he and he gets his stuff done.
And he's a respected landscaper and he's working for Uptown properties, and they had
nothing but good things to say about him. We talked to family members that
it was the same thing with him. He's got a twin brother. They
would have celebrated her forty fourth birthday together on Monday yesterday. They go to
a dirt track somewhere and have a big time, and they said that they
had all the plans to do that and then suddenly, you know this.
He's shot to death for no apparent reason and a police at this point aren't
speculating. There had been some talk that this may have been a robbery,
but police aren't cooperating that, so nobody really knows what the motive was or
why this person who shot him, though apparently got away. We were told
maybe went up university. It sounds like the police may have video of this
person. They didn't say that, but just talking to them reading between the
lines, they may. They may. They haven't said exactly what they have,
but they're certainly looking for anyone else who has video and thinks they may
have captured something at the time of that murderer to let them know, because
they liked to piece this together and maybe you know, they'll go for a
mile and find where did this guy go and did he you know, go
down this alley and then turn this way? What direction was he going home?
You know, what was he wearing? Did he get something to you
know what that kind of thing was all part of what they're looking at.
Well, the thing is, uh, I think I'm town rental propertiessician a
ten thousand dollars reward. I'm kind of surprised it's been several days now and
the police have not released a video or description of the perpetrator. It's normally,
okay, this is what the guy looks like, this is what he
was wearing, had on gold pants, had a white T shirt or whatever,
and that you get it, get that out quickly immediately, so these
things get cold in a hurry. And I'm wondering why the police haven't released
the video. You know, I asked him about that, and you know,
uh, Captain the Saunders is now in charge up there. He's he's
got it together, you know, he knows what he's doing. They saw
all the lot of these. He wouldn't go into any details. I mean,
he just basically said, look, we're just not to the point where
we can release anything yet, which you know, which that's what he said
to me, So, you know, but that tells me that either they
don't have hardly anything or they are they're not to a point where they can
release it because they've got other investigation type things going on, like maybe they
got an idea who this is, maybe they're tracking it down, or maybe
they have nothing that they can release. You know, it could be one
or the other. But I have to wonder if they don't have a few
leads on this person, and maybe they'll be able to track them down,
and maybe they're just waiting for the right minute to do it, and they
may not want to say anything because maybe you know, I'm just talking in
generalities. You know, sometimes they'll have a person they don't want to let
that person know they got something because they don't want them to ditch something that
they have, you know, or some evidence that they get rid of,
and so that in the past, I've seen them do that, But I
have no idea, you know, they're holding their cards too close at this
point to know. You're looking at a picture of a jigsaw puzzle and you've
got about four pieces, and it's man, anything could happen in those other
pieces. Now. Lastly, you know a story about twelve days ago about
about Michael Sweeney, seventy one years old or well known business leader and also
a car dealer, worked in the car business for more than forty years.
And Sweeney was in some sort of alleged road rage incident. It was in
a Nissan Autumn with two women age forty five and fifty seven. It weren't
shot, but allegedly someone pulled up alongside and shot him twice, once in
the head, once in the neck, and of course Michael Sweeney died immediately
at the scene. At this point, I'm told by police they do not
have video and the case is almost called from the beginning. They don't know
what happened. Anything new on that one. They haven't released anything on that.
That's a bizarre That is a very bizarre story there. And I don't
know, you know, just trying to piece all this thing together. You
know, it came out as road rage, as if there was some kind
of an incident on the highway that you know, created this situation where somebody
just pulled out this gun and started firing, And that may be what happened,
you know, but there may be there may be other ends and maybe,
you know, I don't know what if there was some altercation before they
ever got on the road and this was just somebody catching up with them,
and people that were there, you know, they don't want to be witnessed
to something that else had happened. So there's a lot of loose ends on
that one. And what really happened. I think that's going to be one
of those truth stranger than fiction kind of things, because it just some of
the things just didn't seem to add up. As we were working on that
story the other day, it seemed like there might be more to that or
something else happened by a random road rage. But maybe it is a sant
X graduate in the car business forever and I had a couple of cops tell
me more is coming, and it makes me think maybe there was something else
other than road rage that was going on. But and the absence of facts,
speculation runs rampant, and h we'll see what happens Cincinnatis, like these
other cities. Watch CNN and Fox News this morning it was mayhem all over
the place on beaches and Myrtle Beach, Chicago. Fifty people shot in the
city of Chicago, Huntington Beach, California, Cincinnati. Three shot in a
bar this morning. In Springdale. You have the murder of Nicholas Kernan.
You have what happened to Michael Sweeney, you have what Destiny starks in that
crowd and Brandon Prayer must have been saying a prayer that he's still with us
today. And just you and I've been around a long time. Doesn't it
seem there's more mayhem than ever before? Or are you? Are we reporting
on it more? You know, that's the question, is there more?
Are there more shootings or are we just covering it? We're more aware of
them because they seem to happen, and we get you know, get out.
I know, when I was a kid, you know, we never
thought about mass murders or killers or anything like that, but there were a
lot of them around. There was a there's a very bizarre and interesting story
from back in West Virginia where I'm from, Morgantown. There was a horrific
murder of two college co eds. And there's a great podcast on this thing.
As you google up like WVU co ed murders, there's like an eight
hour podcast. If you like those true crime things, there's none better than
this one. But it details what happened. And they get into the thing
and they're saying when they tried to find out these two young ladies have been
beheaded, it was so bizarre, so grizzly that at the time, when
I was a kid when this happened, that adults talked about it in hushed
tones and I thought it was an urban legend for a while, but it
was not. But I say that to say, when they went to try
and find who may have done this unbelievably gruesome crime, there were so many
people that had been cutting the heads off of victims that they couldn't sort of
throw them all, and it made it really difficult to you know. So
I don't think we have as many of those trying to murder. But I'm
out there my bike around you know, we didn't think there is going on.
They just weren't aware. But it was more prevalent than apparently than it
is now. Wow, I wanted. I've always wanted to see the Old
West. You know, we think about how this is like the wild West.
I wonder if the wild West was as wild is what we're seeing right
now with all these shootings. We may be, you know, like old
boy, I'd be afraid of travel Walton, the old wild West. But
we may be living worse than they had. And I've never seen a comparison
though. All right, Brian Hemrick, once again, death, disease,
destruction, Mayham and be headings everywhere, and once again, thank you for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thanks again, mister Huntingham. Bran Hemrick,
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