{"id":36688,"date":"2026-08-10T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36688"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:41:38","slug":"shoppers-comment-triggers-evacuation-massive-police-response-at-hamilton-kroger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36688","title":{"rendered":"Shopper\u2019s comment triggers evacuation, massive police response at Hamilton Kroger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HAMILTON, Ohio (WXIX) &#8211; A comment made by a shopper inside a Kroger grocery store Sunday afternoon prompted a large police response that shut down the location for nearly two hours, according to Hamilton police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Around 4 p.m., the Hamilton Police Department responded to the Kroger on Main Street on the city\u2019s west side after an employee reported a shopper had allegedly threatened to open fire inside the store.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header | article-header w-100\">Store evacuated, person of interest located<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers immediately began clearing the store while employees and other officers evacuated customers. One customer described the scene inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt came in, we must evacuate the building immediately, grab your personal belongings and please exit,\u201d the customer said. \u201cI looked at my wife and everybody else was looking at each other, and I thought, \u2018I think this is going to be the real deal.\u2019 I said, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on but I have never seen this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police located the person of interest but did not make an arrest. Chief Trent Chenoweth said after interviewing everyone involved, the threat did not hold up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt turned out it seems to be blown out of proportion,\u201d Chenoweth said. \u201cThere was a comment made by a person shopping at the store to one of the employees. The employee reported it to a manager. We have since interviewed everyone involved and there is no gun, no weapon, no threat to anyone that we have located.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header | article-header w-100\">Response strained city resources<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No shots were fired and no one was hurt, but the response drew nearly every available unit in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe had an incident going on on the East Side which requires multiple units,\u201d Chenoweth said. \u201cYou\u2019re in a situation where everyone is tied up on this. I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s not a big deal because we responded like it was the real thing, so I\u2019m glad it turns out everybody is safe, but it does drain everything that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The store was closed for approximately two hours before reopening around 6 p.m. Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Hamilton Police Department Main Desk at 513-868-5811.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><i>See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/page\/report-typos-to-fox19\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><i>Please click here to report it<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><i>Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? 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