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Driver identifi ed in deadly police pursuit Two bystanders killed at outdoor dining spot Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Two suspects and one victim have been identifi ed in Friday’s deadly police pursuit that crossed the Ohio-Kentucky border. A driver fl eeing Cincinnati police crashed on Monmouth Street in Newport plowing through an outdoor dining area Friday afternoon. Two bystanders were killed and another two were injured. Meyer Mason Meyer, 28, was the driver, according to Cincinnati police. His most recent address is listed in Reading, court documents state. Meyer is being held at the Hamilton

County Justice Center on an open theft warrant with a $50,000 bond. “Additional charges are pending in Ohio and Kentucky, as well as fedJohnson eral charges,” police said. In Hamilton County, Meyer has previously been convicted on multiple drug charges. Kristen Johnson, 22, was arrested in connection with the pursuit and crash, according to court documents. The documents say Johnson admitted to police she “was actively pulling up Google maps in an attempt to aid the driver in escaping the police.” Johnson is charged with fl eeing and eluding police. On Monday, she was being held at the Campbell County Jail on a $1 million bond awaiting further hearings.

Pictured is one person being arrested after a crash at 5th and Monmouth streets in Northern Kentucky on Aug. 7. BOBBY NIGHTENGALE/THE ENQUIRER

The Hamilton County Coroner’s Offi ce has identifi ed one of the victims. Raymond Laible, 81, was one of the bystanders who was killed, the coroner’s offi ce confi rmed.

Laible was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he died. Another person was also killed in See DEADLY, Page 10A

Dollar General distribution center will bring 300 jobs Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Abner Gaines House was built in Walton in 1814. Historians believe it was a meeting place of a band of marauding Confederate army veterans responsible for some of the lynching deaths of Blacks in Boone County. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Gaines family, owned Margaret Garner, an enslaved Black woman, and her family. CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER

It wasn’t just freedom that was taken from Margaret Garner Sarah Haselhorst Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Ice that capped the Ohio River was thick underneath Margaret Garner’s feet. Gusts of biting wind blew through her garments, an infant wrapped to her chest and a baby in her belly. The inky night enveloped her family. Robert, her husband, their three other children and his parents. It was their escape from enslavement. They blazed through the winter stillness in a stolen sleigh from Maplewood Farm in Richwood, Kentucky, that, at the time, was owned by the politically prominent Gaines family. The glacial, half-mile stretch to the banks of the Ohio was the last leg to freedom. The Garners reached the free state on Jan. 28, 1856, safe inside the Cincinnati home of her cousin Elijah Kite. Day broke and the Garners’ safety shattered. U.S. marshals surrounded the home, headed by Archibald Gaines, the man who said he owned her. From a window perch, Robert drew a pistol. And drove a bullet into a marshal’s fi n-

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A view of a mural at the riverfront in Covington, July 21, that depicts Margaret Garner, an enslaved Black woman, and her families escape from the Maplewood Farm in Boone County, Ky., where they were slaves. ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

ger. Marshals toppled the Garners, and the men rushed in. And there Margaret stood. Her hands bloodied. She’d made a decision only a mother could. She’d slit the throat of the 2 1/2-year-old toddler she’d ushered through the night. Her

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other children bore slices across their heads and shoulders. “It was my own,” she’d tell The Rev. Henry Bushnell later. “I knew it was better for them to go home to God than See GARNER, Page 2A

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Dollar General will bring 250 jobs to the city of Walton as part of a $65 million investment in the Boone County, Kentucky city of about 4,000 residents off I-71/75. The new 630,000-square-foot distribution center will be built at 950 Wenstrup Lane, a vacant swath of land just east of I-75 and south of Ky. 16, according to a release from Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development Corporation (Tri-ED). “Dollar General is an excellent addition to the Northern Kentucky business community," said Lee Crume, president and CEO of Tri-ED. "We know the company is a great corporate citizen and this is a long-term investment bringing new jobs into Boone County.” Tri-ED and the city of Walton worked together to bring the project to the area and received cooperation from Boone County, according to the release. Walton Mayor Gabe Brown said the city appreciates the signifi cant investment and that the Dollar General Literacy Foundation is one way Dollar General is a great community partner. "We feel they are a valuable addition and will benefi t Walton and our school district,” Brown said. Construction on Dollar General's 18th traditional distribution center that will serve about 800 stores is scheduled to start in September, according to a Dollar General release. The distribution center is scheduled to be operational by January 2021, according to the release. The company calls the center a $65 million investment that will bring 250 jobs to Boone County. The Walton facility is also expected to create 50 more jobs in Dollar General private fl eet positions, according to the release. “Dollar General’s supply chain network plays a critical role in ensuring the products customers need and want are delivered to our nearly 17,000 stores in a timely and consistent manner," said Mike Kindy, Dollar General’s executive vice president of global supply chain in the release. Dollar General operates more than 580 stores in Kentucky and employs more than 5,600 residents of the Commonwealth.

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