Police in Toledo, Ohio have arrested 20-year-old Eljay Crisp-Carr and charged him with felonious assault in connection with a shooting at the Old West End Festival that wounded 12 people and prompted organizers to cancel the second day.
By the time officers were able to widen the search, the scene had already turned into something else entirely: a park that had been filled with tents, music and food trucks now carrying the echo of gunfire from the Old West End Festival in Toledo.
Police arrested Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, on Thursday, charging him with 11 counts of felonious assault tied to the weekend shooting that wounded 12 people.
The gunfire broke out Saturday during the annual festival. which took place in a neighborhood known for Victorian homes in the Old West End of Toledo. a city about 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Detroit and on the western edge of Lake Erie. Organizers canceled the festival’s second day after the shooting.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Crisp-Carr. No one answered a call to a phone number associated with him Friday morning.
In Toledo Municipal Court, a detective described video showing Crisp-Carr participating in a fight before the shooting. The criminal complaint says that after another man began firing. Crisp-Carr moved away from the group but then turned back and opened fire. The detective wrote that he fired indiscriminately into the crowd.
Police said the situation appeared to start as a fight between rival groups that escalated into two people shooting at each other. The two people police identified as shooting at each other were not among those wounded.
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the other suspect, Ka Nye Taylor, but he has not been caught.
The violence sent terrified bystanders running for safety while others rushed in to help the injured. Medics and police also responded quickly. The victims ranged from teenagers to one person in their 60s.
At a news conference Tuesday, Toledo’s police chief and other city officials praised officers and good Samaritans for moving fast to aid victims during the chaos. Chief of Fire and Rescue Allison Armstrong said people who had been shocked and frightened by what they had just seen jumped into action.
“We saw strangers who were shocked and frightened by the violence they just saw, they jumped into action,” Armstrong said. “They helped others by placing tourniquets, dressing wounds, applying pressure and comforting those victims until additional help could arrive.”
For now, the arrest of Crisp-Carr gives investigators a clearer starting point, but the case remains incomplete while the second suspect, Ka Nye Taylor, is still at large.
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Wait so they canceled day 2 because of like one shooter??
Man Toledo really can’t catch a break. Sounds like it started as a fight then just went full chaos. 12 wounded is horrible though, idk why people bring guns to festivals.
Felonious assault?? That wording always confuses me, so is he basically charged for attempted murder or what? Also how do they know he “fired indiscriminately” if it was all after another guy started shooting… feels like the video can be misleading.