{
  "id": "2025-06-11-university-of-cincinnati-shake-shack-shooting",
  "slug": "university-of-cincinnati-shake-shack-shooting-2025-06-11",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Cincinnati",
    "shortName": "UC",
    "state": "OH",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UC Safety Alert",
    "alertPlatform": "Rave",
    "enrollment": 53000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-06-11",
    "type": "shooting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Man fatally shot inside a restaurant across from student housing; shelter-in-place issued",
    "headlinePublic": "Man fatally shot inside a restaurant across from student housing; shelter-in-place issued",
    "summary": "At approximately 8:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, [41-year-old Christopher Stallworth was shot in the chest inside the Shake Shack restaurant at 249 Calhoun Street](https://local12.com/news/local/shooting-near-uc-leaves-1-man-seriously-injured-shots-fired-shot-gun-weapon-university-of-cincinnati-campus-shake-shack-arrested-suspect), directly across from University of Cincinnati student housing in Clifton Heights. The shooting [stemmed from a parking-spot argument](https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/clifton/police-man-hospitalized-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-shooting-at-clifton-shake-shack) that, according to court documents, escalated when 54-year-old Antwoine McCants drew a pistol on the unarmed Stallworth. UC issued a [UC Safety Alert at approximately 8:25 p.m. EDT](https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html) telling students to shelter in place. Stallworth was transported to UC Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.",
    "outcome": "Stallworth died at UC Medical Center from a single gunshot wound to the chest. According to police and court records, McCants fled the scene on a motorcycle with a female passenger but called 911 minutes later to surrender, telling the dispatcher 'I just shot someone.' He was charged with murder and held at the Hamilton County Justice Center on $1 million bond.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 1,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-06-11T20:25:20-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "UC Emergency- Police responding to emergency reported at 249 Calhoun. If safe, stay at your location. Be observant/take action as needed. More info soon",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/UCPublicSafety/status/1932957354796200346",
      "sourceDescription": "@UCPublicSafety on X (verbatim)",
      "annotations": [
        "Sent approximately 5 minutes after the 8:20 p.m. EDT shooting",
        "The address '249 Calhoun Street' is the specific Shake Shack address, using the street number rather than the building name is unusual for UC Safety Alerts and may reflect that the alert was drafted while the shooter was still believed at large",
        "The 'shelter in place' instruction (rather than 'avoid the area') was appropriate while McCants was still on the loose; he did not surrender until minutes later"
      ],
      "characterCount": 152
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Within 30-60 minutes of the initial alert, the evening of June 11, 2025, after McCants surrendered to Cincinnati Police",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "UC Emergency: ALL CLEAR Officers responded for a report of a person shot. A subject has been detained by police. Normal activities can resume.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/UCPublicSafety/status/1932961151434039428",
      "sourceDescription": "UC Public Safety official X account; verbatim all-clear tweet confirmed in multiple news outlet reports and search results",
      "annotations": [
        "All-clear came after McCants's self-surrender via 911, an unusually fast resolution for a Calhoun Street shooting that left UC dorms (Calhoun Hall and Stratford Heights are within blocks) in shelter-in-place for less than an hour",
        "UC uses 'UC Emergency: ALL CLEAR' as its standard all-clear prefix (distinct from 'UC Safety Alert:' used for initial notifications), the pattern is consistent across multiple 2024-2025 UC incidents",
        "Note that the all-clear says 'a subject has been detained'; McCants called 911 himself and surrendered shortly after the shooting"
      ],
      "characterCount": 142
    }
  ],
  "context": "The University of Cincinnati is a [public R1 doctoral institution](https://www.uc.edu/) with approximately 53,000 students. Calhoun Street is the southern boundary of UC's main campus, lined with student housing, restaurants, and bars in the [Clifton Heights / University Heights / Fairview (CUF)](https://www.newsrecord.org/news/shootings-on-the-rise-in-neighborhood-near-campus-police-say/article_743a09b2-6057-11eb-9c02-7ba05db6f3ba.html) neighborhood. On the evening of Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at approximately 8:20 p.m. EDT, [41-year-old Christopher Stallworth and 54-year-old Antwoine McCants got into a verbal argument over parking outside the Shake Shack at 249 Calhoun Street](https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/clifton/police-man-hospitalized-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-shooting-at-clifton-shake-shack). According to court documents reported by WCPO, when the argument continued inside the restaurant, McCants drew a handgun and shot Stallworth (who was unarmed and had both hands in his pockets) in the chest. Officers responding from UC Public Safety provided medical aid on scene, applying a chest seal, but Stallworth died at UC Medical Center. McCants [fled on a motorcycle but called 911 minutes later to turn himself in, telling the dispatcher 'I just shot someone'](https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/national-news/ohio/i-just-shot-someone-shooting-inside-shake-shack-spurred-by-argument-over-parking/). [UC Police issued a Safety Alert at approximately 8:25 p.m. EDT](https://local12.com/news/local/shooting-near-uc-leaves-1-man-seriously-injured-shots-fired-shot-gun-weapon-university-of-cincinnati-campus-shake-shack-arrested-suspect) telling students to shelter in place; the alert was lifted within the hour. The shooting is the most consequential Calhoun Street incident since UC's 2024 Halloween shooting on Vine Street (separately documented in this archive) and a January 2023 Fairview-corridor aggravated robbery (also documented). UC President Neville Pinto issued a written statement of condolence the next day.",
  "responseTimeMinutes": 5,
  "keyFindings": [
    "The UC Safety Alert was dispatched within approximately 5 minutes of the 8:20 p.m. EDT shooting",
    "Shake Shack at 249 Calhoun Street sits directly across from Stratford Heights and Calhoun Hall, making a parking-argument escalation on a Wednesday evening a high-impact event for UC residential students",
    "The suspect's self-surrender by 911 call meant the shelter-in-place was lifted within the hour rather than running while a suspect remained at large",
    "The June 11, 2025 Calhoun Street shooting followed the 2024 Halloween shooting near UC's southern boundary (separately documented in this archive)"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Man dies at hospital after shooting near UC, victim identified (Local 12 / WKRC)",
      "url": "https://local12.com/news/local/shooting-near-uc-leaves-1-man-seriously-injured-shots-fired-shot-gun-weapon-university-of-cincinnati-campus-shake-shack-arrested-suspect",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Court docs: Man arrested for fatally shooting Shake Shack patron after 'parking conflict' (WCPO)",
      "url": "https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/clifton/police-man-hospitalized-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-shooting-at-clifton-shake-shack",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Arrest made in shooting at Cincinnati restaurant that stemmed from parking dispute (Local 12)",
      "url": "https://local12.com/news/local/arrest-made-in-shooting-at-cincinnati-restaurant-that-stemmed-from-parking-dispute-shake-shack-calhoun-christopher-stallworth-antwoine-mccants-gun-crime-weapon-hospital-police",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "'I just shot someone' — Shooting inside Shake Shack spurred by argument over parking (Yahoo/Bluewater Healthy Living)",
      "url": "https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/national-news/ohio/i-just-shot-someone-shooting-inside-shake-shack-spurred-by-argument-over-parking/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Arrest in Shake Shack shooting near UC (Fox19 Cincinnati)",
      "url": "https://www.fox19.com/2025/06/13/arrest-shake-shack-shooting-near-uc/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Safety Notifications (UC Public Safety)",
      "url": "https://www.uc.edu/about/publicsafety/emergencymanagement/advisories.html",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "type": "official-social",
      "title": "@UCPublicSafety on X (verbatim)",
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      "accessedDate": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "type": "official-social",
      "title": "@UCPublicSafety all-clear",
      "url": "https://x.com/UCPublicSafety/status/1932961151434039428",
      "accessedDate": "2026-07-18"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "shooting",
    "off-campus",
    "ohio",
    "public-r1",
    "cincinnati",
    "big-12",
    "calhoun-street",
    "shake-shack",
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  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-14",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-18",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}