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Another tragic death in the area of a church festival. I have worked these details and it draws many people from outside the church. Most security is hired or is worked by local police departments. It appears it may be gang related.

Prayers go out for the man's family and his church community.

This appeared in the Toledo Blade.

With her father by her side, Bianca Salinas yesterday placed a red
rose on a makeshift memorial in the grass near the corner of Idaho and
White streets in East Toledo, where a 19-year-old man was fatally shot
Friday night.

Kenneth Kimble, of 721 Raymer Blvd., who his family and friends knew
as Kenny, was shot once in the torso and died shortly after arriving at
St. Charles Mercy Hospital. The bullet pierced his heart, Dr. Maneesha
Pandey, a Lucas County deputy coroner, said.

"I don't know why this had to happen," said John Salinas, who often
played basketball with Mr. Kimble and his younger brother Shannon. They
were friends of his daughter.

"I am totally lost and confused. It hasn't sunk in yet."

The shooting occurred just outside the St. Thomas Aquinas Church
Festival about 10:10 p.m. after Mr. Kimble and another man apparently
began fighting, police said.

Mr. Kimble lived about a block from where he was shot.

Mr. Salinas said he had spoken with Mr. Kimble earlier in the night at the festival.

Toledo police Detective Bob Schroeder said there are varying accounts of what occurred before the shooting.

Several witnesses have reported that there were about five or six
black males on one side of the street and about a dozen Hispanic males
on the other.

"Some witnesses have said it was gang-related," the detective said, stressing he could not make that conclusion at this point.

Detective Schroeder said the street was "wall to wall" with people
when the shooting occurred, sending people running and screaming in
panic.

"It was mayhem," he said.

No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting.

Tyler Kimble said his older brother, who played basketball at Waite High School, had aspirations of playing professionally.

He idolized Yao Ming, a center for the Houston Rockets who averages 22 points a game.