Crash with injuries reported on Hamilton Lebanon Road in Monroe (2024)

LEADING THE WAY. GOOD MORNING AND THANKS FOR JOINING US AT 5:00 ON THIS MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND. I’M TIFFANY WILSON HERE WITH METEOROLOGIST KATIE DONOVAN. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND TO YOU. DAY WEEKEND. THANK YOU. AND TO ALL THE MOTHERS OUT THERE AND MOTHER FIGURES. UM, BIG WEEKEND. BUT THE WEATHER ISN’T SORT OF IDEAL TODAY. YEAH. NOT IDEAL. SO WE’RE GOING HAVE A SMALL WINDOW FOR SOME SHOWERS AND THEN IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT’S GOING TO GET A LITTLE BIT BETTER THROUGH TODAY AND THEN ESPECIALLY INTO TOMORROW. SO IF YOU HAVE PLANS FOR MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND WEATHER DOES LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE TOLERABLE HERE INTO THE SECOND HALF OF YOUR SATURDAY. RIGHT NOW WE’RE TRACKING SOME RAIN. NOTHING RIGHT NOW, BUT I THINK WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WE’RE LIKELY GOING TO START TO SEE OUR FIRST SHOWERS OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA. AND THOSE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE UP UNTIL THE LATE MORNING, EVEN AS LATE AS NOON. YOU CAN SEE HERE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN. MOST OF IT’S UP AROUND NORTHERN INDIANA, PUSHING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME OF THOSE SHOWERS WILL BE HEADING OUR DIRECTION HERE AGAIN BY 7:00 THIS MORNING. COVERAGE IS NOT GOING TO BE HIGH BY ANY MEANS, BUT LIGHT SCATTERED RAIN VERY LIKELY HERE AS WE START OUT THE DAY. COOL MORNING WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S. WE HAVE 51 IN CINCINNATI RIGHT NOW. FLORENCE IS AT 52. WE HAVE 52 IN DILLSBORO ABOUT 49 OVER SALES IN THE UPPER 40S OUT OVER HILLSBORO AND PEEBLES ARE ON OUR WAY TO HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70 TODAY. SO IT IS GOING TO FEEL COMFORTABLE. UM, YESTERDAY WAS MORE REMINISCENT OF FALL WAS VERY SUNNY. WE HAD THOSE COOLER TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. TODAY WE’RE GOING TO BE MUCH WARMER THAN WHAT WE FELT YESTERDAY. TODAY AGAIN, 68 TO ABOUT 70 FOR THE HIGH. AS WE HEAD THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON, YOUR HOUR BY HOUR FORECAST, THOUGH, WILL PAINT A PRETTY RAINY PICTURE HERE AS YOU HEAD THROUGH TEN 11:00 THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE LOWER 60S BY TEN, AND THEN THE FAUCET EVENTUALLY TURNING OFF HERE. WHEN WE LOOK AHEAD TO A BETTER MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A TIMELINE FOR TODAY’S RAIN. AND WHEN WE DO DRY OUT INTO THE SECOND HALF OF SATURDAY, COMING UP, TIFFANY KATIE, THANK YOU. REMEMBERING A LOCAL COUPLE WHO DIED AFTER A DEVASTATING WRONG-WAY CRASH IN WEST CHESTER. THE SIXTH GRADE TEACHER AND HER HUSBAND WERE BOTH KILLED. WLWT NEWS FIVE STACEY KERSHAW SAT DOWN WITH THEIR FAMILY. WE SAW IT ON THE NEWS ON SUNDAY. YOU NEVER THINK THAT IT’S ANYBODY YOU KNOW OR YOUR FAMILY, BUT YOU NEVER THINK IT’S YOU. AT 52 YEARS YOUNG, HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS PATRICK AND NICOLE PELTON WERE LIVING THE LIFE OF THEIR DREAMS ON SUNDAY NIGHT. THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED. A WRONG WAY DRIVER HIT THEIR CAR ON COX ROAD NEAR VOICE OF AMERICA CENTER. WE’RE A SMALL FAMILY NOW. WE’RE EVEN SMALLER. A TIGHT KNIT FAMILY NOW LEFT WITH TWO EMPTY SEATS AT THE TABLE. YOU KNOW. WE JUST HAD I MEAN, IT WAS JUST SO, SO MUCH FUN. AND THIS IS A MEMORY THE PELTON FAMILY HOLDS NEAR AND DEAR TO THEIR HEARTS. IT’S THE LAST TIME THEY’D ALL COME TOGETHER FOR A FAMILY DINNER. AND THERE’S NIKKI. THEY DID ACTUALLY GET HER. WHICH I WAS GLAD BECAUSE THIS LOSS, LEAVING LOVED ONES AND AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY HEARTBROKEN. NICOLE WAS A SCIENCE TEACHER AT ROSS MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR 22 YEARS. PATRICK, A SOFTWARE ENGINEER. THEY WERE BOTH JUST LOVING, CARING PEOPLE. THE COUPLE WAS KNOWN FOR THEIR KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY AND FOR NICOLE, HER STUDENTS WERE LIKE FAMILY. HER STUDENTS MEANT THE WORLD TO HER. THEY WERE ALL HER KIDS AND HER VISION WAS IS ESPECIALLY GETTING GIRLS INTERESTED IN STEM AND SCIENCE AND SO SISTER IN LAW DENISE PELTON DECIDED THE BEST WAY TO REMEMBER THEM WAS TO GIVE BACK. SO THAT’S WHEN I. I DECIDED TO SET UP THE GOFUNDME, UM, FOR FOR PAT AND NIKKI TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE SCHOOL. WE JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, FURTHER NIKKI’S VISION AND, YOU KNOW, DO THAT FOR PAT AND NIKKI AND FOR HER STUDENTS A FITTING WAY TO HONOR TWO PEOPLE WHO CARED SO DEEPLY FOR OTHERS. I KNOW PAT AND NIKKI ARE UP THERE JUST JUST SMILING AND SMILING DOWN HERE AND THEY’RE JUST THEY’RE SO HAPPY. THAT WAS DAISY KERSHAW REPORTING. NOW THE FAMILY HAS A GOAL OF RAISING. $25,000 THROUGH GOFUNDME. ALL OF THE PROCEEDS WILL GO TO ROSS MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHERE NICOLE WAS A TEACHER. AND WE DO HAVE A LINK TO THE FUNDRAISER IN OUR STORY THAT IS ON WLWT DOT COM. WEST CHESTER MAN HAS BEEN CONVICTED FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING HIS WIFE AND THREE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS BACK IN 2019. A THREE JUDGE PANEL FOUND GUPREET SINGH GUILTY OF MURDER DURING CLOSING ARGUMENTS. PROSECUTORS WALKED THE JUDGES THROUGH A LOT OF THE TESTIMONY, LAYING OUT THEIR THEORY THAT SINGH SHOT ALL FOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEN TOSSED THE GUN IN THE POND BEHIND THE APARTMENT. THEY SAY THE MOTIVE INCLUDED A LONG STANDING AFFAIR THAT SINGH WAS HAVING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, AND MONEY PROBLEMS. WILLIAMS FAMILY OF THE VICTIMS TELL US THAT THE VERDICT BRINGS BACK A LOT OF PAIN, GRIEF, HURT. AT LEAST I FELT THAT MY RELATIVES GOT MURDERED TODAY. AGAIN, MY WOUND GOT AGAIN, TOUCHED. IT WAS WHOLE DAY WAS PRETTY ROUGH FOR US AND AND WE JUST WHAT WE HEARD, WE JUST COULD NOT BELIEVE ON OUR EAR THE FINALLY WE ARE GETTING JUSTICE. THE SENTENCING PHASE WILL BEGIN MONDAY MORNING AT AN ORDER FOR GURPREET SINGH TO GET THE DEATH PENALTY. THE THREE JUDGES MUST REACH A UNANIMOUS DECISION. WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE PERSON WHO WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE OF A CRASHED CAR IN HAMILTON. WE NOW KNOW THAT THAT MAN DIED AFTER BEING STABBED. IT HAPPENED ON ROSS AVENUE NEAR CITY STREET LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. POLICE SAY THE DRIVER, 29 YEAR OLD ROGER DOUGLAS COLE. THE SECOND WAS STABBED WHILE TRYING TO STEAL A CAR. POLICE SAY THAT HE TOOK OFF IN THAT STOLEN CAR, BUT HE DIED FROM THE STAB WOUNDS, WHICH IS WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH. HIS DEATH IS BEING RULED A HOMICIDE AND WE ARE STILL WORKING TO FIND OUT IF