Pete Crable was sitting in the parking lot of a Colerain Township Walgreens when a bullet sliced through the back of his van and into his liver. The stray shot, fired by a publicly unidentified suspect in the double killing of two brothers across the street at Popeyes over two weeks ago, has left Crable recovering since.
Crable was picking up a prescription from Walgreens for a tooth ache when he found himself needing to roll out of the car and trot inside to ask for help, he said in a Facebook post this week. Two women came to Crable's aid after he entered Walgreens, applying pressure on his wound while he waited for paramedics to arrive, said Sean Ballinger on a GoFundMe page to raise money for Crable's recovery. Crable told the women applying pressure to tell his wife Sandra he loved her as he didn't know if he'd make it to the hospital, Ballinger said on the GoFundMe page.
The local mosaic and tile business owner was brought to the ICU at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where his liver and a cracked rib have been healing from the gunshot and his gallbladder was removed.
I woke up feeling blessed to be alive. Colerain Township police were called just before 1 p. The shooting started in the parking lot of a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, with one of the brothers found inside a blue Infiniti and the other just outside the vehicle, according to a Colerain Township spokesperson. The Infiniti had 12 gunshots through the passenger window. Police have still not released a motive or announced any arrests in the shooting.
However, court records show that Rashan Robinson publicly expressed his fears of being killed in a court filing years before his death. A spokesperson has confirmed Crable was not an intended target in the shooting. Still, Crable says he's facing months of rehab after he's discharged from the hospital. The suspected perpetrator also died. A local business owner says the ongoing retail crime problem has forced his staff to take take matters into their own hands, often chasing thieves down themselves.
