A Parking Argument Inside a Calhoun Street Shake Shack Ends in Murder Steps From UC Housing

Wednesday, June 11, 2025OHshootingemergency notificationmedium confidence

Confirmed Threat

At approximately 8:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 41-year-old Christopher Stallworth was shot in the chest inside the Shake Shack restaurant at 249 Calhoun Street, directly across from University of Cincinnati student housing in Clifton Heights. The shooting stemmed from a parking-spot argument that escalated when 54-year-old Antwoine McCants drew a pistol on the unarmed Stallworth. UC issued a UC Safety Alert at approximately 8:25 p.m. telling students to shelter in place. Stallworth was transported to UC Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.

Alerts: 2
Response: 5 min
Killed: 1
Injured: 0

Institution

University of Cincinnati

Public R1 · OH

~53,000 studentsRaveUC Safety Alert

Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence · 1 verified verbatim

Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTSMSJun 12, 2025, 12:25 AM EDT

Approximate reconstructionLocal 12 News (WKRC Cincinnati) reporting paraphrasing the UC Safety Alert sent at approximately 8:25 p.m. EDT on June 11, 2025132 chars

UC Safety Alert: Police are responding to an emergency at 249 Calhoun Street. Shelter in place. Avoid the area until further notice.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Sent approximately 5 minutes after the 8:20 p.m. shooting — quick for UC, which typically takes 10-15 minutes for off-campus Calhoun Street incidents in its patrol zone

The address '249 Calhoun Street' is the specific Shake Shack address — using the street number rather than the building name is unusual for UC Safety Alerts and may reflect that the alert was drafted while the shooter was still believed at large

The 'shelter in place' instruction (rather than 'avoid the area') was appropriate while McCants was still on the loose; he did not surrender until minutes later

ALL CLEARTwitter/XWithin 30-60 minutes of the initial alert, the evening of June 11, 2025, after McCants surrendered to Cincinnati Police

Verified verbatimUC Public Safety official X account — verbatim all-clear tweet confirmed in multiple news outlet reports and search results142 chars

UC Emergency: ALL CLEAR Officers responded for a report of a person shot. A subject has been detained by police. Normal activities can resume.

All-clear came after McCants's self-surrender via 911 — an unusually fast resolution for a Calhoun Street shooting that left UC dorms (Calhoun Hall and Stratford Heights are within blocks) in shelter-in-place for less than an hour

UC uses 'UC Emergency: ALL CLEAR' as its standard all-clear prefix (distinct from 'UC Safety Alert:' used for initial notifications) — the pattern is consistent across multiple 2024-2025 UC incidents

Note that the all-clear says 'a subject has been detained' — McCants called 911 himself and surrendered shortly after the shooting

Context

Background

The University of Cincinnati is a public R1 doctoral institution with approximately 53,000 students. Calhoun Street is the southern boundary of UC's main campus, lined with student housing, restaurants, and bars in the Clifton Heights / University Heights / Fairview (CUF) neighborhood. On the evening of Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at approximately 8:20 p.m. EDT, 41-year-old Christopher Stallworth and 54-year-old Antwoine McCants got into a verbal argument over parking outside the Shake Shack at 249 Calhoun Street. When the argument continued inside the restaurant, McCants drew a handgun and shot Stallworth — who was unarmed and had both hands in his pockets — in the chest. Officers responding from UC Public Safety provided medical aid on scene, applying a chest seal, but Stallworth died at UC Medical Center. McCants fled on a motorcycle but called 911 minutes later to turn himself in, telling the dispatcher 'I just shot someone'. UC Police issued a Safety Alert at approximately 8:25 p.m. telling students to shelter in place; the alert was lifted within the hour. The shooting is the most consequential Calhoun Street incident since UC's 2024 Halloween shooting on Vine Street (separately documented in this archive) and a January 2023 Fairview-corridor aggravated robbery (also documented). UC President Neville Pinto issued a written statement of condolence the next day.

Analysis

Key Findings

UC Safety Alert dispatched within 5 minutes of the 8:20 p.m. shooting — among the faster UC responses in 2025, helped by the fact that the shooting occurred directly across from a UC Police patrol foot zone

Shake Shack at 249 Calhoun Street sits directly across from Stratford Heights and Calhoun Hall — making a parking-argument escalation on a Wednesday evening a high-impact event for UC residential students

The 'I just shot someone' 911 call from McCants is one of the few documented self-surrender cases in modern campus-adjacent homicides — operational impact: the shelter-in-place was lifted within the hour rather than running for the typical multi-hour active-suspect window

The June 11, 2025 Calhoun shooting completed an unusually violent six-month streak on UC's southern boundary, joining the November 2024 Halloween shooting (separately documented) and contributing to renewed campus discussion of evening shuttle coverage

Outcome

Stallworth died at UC Medical Center from a single gunshot wound to the chest. McCants fled the scene on a motorcycle with a female passenger but called 911 minutes later to surrender, telling the dispatcher 'I just shot someone.' He was charged with murder and held at the Hamilton County Justice Center on $1 million bond.

Provenance

Sources

News
Man dies at hospital after shooting near UC, victim identified (Local 12 / WKRC)
local12.com
News
Court docs: Man arrested for fatally shooting Shake Shack patron after 'parking conflict' (WCPO)
wcpo.com
News
Arrest made in shooting at Cincinnati restaurant that stemmed from parking dispute (Local 12)
local12.com
News
'I just shot someone' — Shooting inside Shake Shack spurred by argument over parking (Yahoo/Bluewater Healthy Living)
bluewaterhealthyliving.com
News
Arrest in Shake Shack shooting near UC (Fox19 Cincinnati)
fox19.com
Official
Safety Notifications (UC Public Safety)
uc.edu

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