Ohio shooting: 1 dead, 8 wounded in ambush at gender reveal party

[jpak]

Source: Fox 19

One woman was killed and eight other people, including three children, were injured after two men wearing all black opened fire at a gender reveal party in Ohio, officials said.

Officers responded to a home in Colerain Township, located outside Cincinnati, around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police spokesman Jim Love told FOX 19.

Five adults and three children were all watching television together when they were attacked without warning, according to Love.

"They were all there for a very positive reason when somebody opened fire," Love told FOX 19. A gender reveal party is where friends and family gather to announce the sex of the baby.

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[EL34x4]

1. I've never heard of a "gender reveal" party.

Is this a thing? Seems a very strange target for violence.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's a thing these days, I hear.

But yes, a strange provocation. Jilted ex?

[targetpractice]

3. I've only heard about them recently... Now I hear about them all the time...

A pregnant couple gets friends and family together for a party with a special frosted cake. When cut the interior of the cake is either pink or blue depending upon the gender of the unborn child. The ob/gyn doc writes the gender and seals it in an envelope for the baker's eyes only... Everyone learns at the same, including the parents to be.

[Crash2Parties]

5. And then everyone freaks out months later when the ob/gyn was incorrect.

It happens.

Doubt there was any connection to the OP, though.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Can be wrong if determined by ultrasound

Amniotic fluid testing is very close to 100% accurate.

[Crash2Parties]

17. I guess I still find it hard to believe people would have an amnio just to find the gender.

It's not 100% risk free, which is why amniocentesis is usually only used for higher risk pregnancies.

Amnio is also not 100% accurate.

"Cell-free DNA is probably 95% plus correct and ultrasound depends on who's doing it. But if it's done by a skilled person... there's 90% to 95% certainty on gender." - Dr. John Williams III, Director of Reproductive Genetics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

So, at best either method is only around 95% accurate. That means 5% inaccurate and thus my original statement.

[meadowlander]

21. My cousin did something like this

but they gave the unopened letter from the ob/gyn to a company that fills a plain box with balloons in blue or pink and then they open the box and all the balloons come out.

[JI7]

10. Excuse for party. I wouldn't be surprised if the party industry pushed it

[politicat]

11. It's not that different from a baby shower.

It just sounds like a re-branding.

(My queer side rolls my eyes at it -- because hey, let's start gender-essentialism ever earlier, right? -- but I have no problems with people being happy they're having a baby and wanting to share it with their friends and family.)

[JI7]

12. Gender reveal usually has men and women

While baby shower is usually women.

Most who did gender reveal also had the shower.

Most Gender reveals so far has mostly been casual and the big moment will be something like cutting cake or popping a balloon which will reveal blue or pink.

I'm not into these things but I'm ok with others just getting together and being happy.

[LanternWaste]

28. I think every party ever thrown was predicated on an 'excuse for a party..."

I think every party ever thrown was predicated on an 'excuse for a party..." Though I wouldn't be surprised if someone pretending to be more clever than is warranted found a reason to minimize or trivialize it.

[Marthe48]

13. A 2nd cousin had one a few years ago

We wore pink or blue, depending on what she thought she'd have. I wore a pink shirt I already had, but some of the guests had tee shirts made up in blue or pink with "IT'S A BOY" or "IT'S A GIRL" printed on them. There were cupcakes. We got our cupcakes, then the blues got on one side of the couple, and the pinks got on the other. A countdown of 3-2-1 and we all bit into the cupcakes. Pink filling! The oldest niece locked herself in the bathroom and cried because she wanted a boy cousin. We didn't bring gifts and they had a nice buffet meal for the guests.

Miss Manners isn't fond of reveal parties, but we had a family get-together and some fun.

Prayers for the family. They just wanted to have some fun.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

27. Sounds like a baby shower to me. n/t

[vkkv]

4. Now if EVERYBODY was ARMED to the teeth !!

I'd feel so much safer here in the good 'ol U.S.A.

[mdbl]

14. Wouldn't surprise me if that was the position of the NRA on the incident

they are such morons.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Maybe fascist a-holes heard about it and thought it meant something transgender-related

Maybe saw people discussing said party on FB or something.

Decided it was time to 'make a statement', put them freaks and queers (their words) in their place.

People are that sick and dumb, as we all know.

I'd be checking the list of people who got invites but didn't come ... then finding out if any of their kids that might have seen the invitation ... are little skinhead punks.

[Maggiemayhem]

9. That was my first thought

[jmowreader]

20. I think you hit it on the head

[melman]

8. Looks like a gang thing

[Honeycombe8]

15. Maybe the shooter thought "gender reveal" meant something else.

Also...isn't 11:30 kinda late for kids to be up?

[jpak]

16. That's what I was thinking

Trumpanzees

[Honeycombe8]

24. LOL. Hope you don't mind if I steal that? nt

[Initech]

18. What kind of gender reveal party goes until 11:30 PM?

And something tells me these people weren't invited.

[haele]

25. A Saturday Night with young adults type of party, even if there are young kids there.

I've experienced weekend residential neighborhood pool parties complete with young and excited kids that go on - and on - until the cops finally come by at midnight to get them to send the DJ home and start breaking the party up. Quincenearas are the worst...

Unfortunately, it seems as if the pregnant woman miscarried because of the shooting. Only a snippet at the end of the sentence, and I'm very surprised that it wasn't more of an issue. Maybe the color of the victims?
I suspect someone at the party had been targeted, which might be a reason the police are low key.

Haele

[YOHABLO]

19. Just another great day in this land of opportunity. Makes me proud. How 'bout you?

[Danmel]

22. My daughter says the way to do gender reveal should be smashing a piggy bank

Put in $1.00 for a boy and 78 cents for a girl.

[obamanut2012]

23. ermagerd I love this

[SoCalMusicLover]

26. Another Feather For NRA & ALL It's Members nt