QUEENSGATE - He took a bullet over 25 cents.
Donald Francis, who police believe was homeless, stood outside the Marathon station at Eighth and Linn streets late Monday night, asking people for money.
That annoyed Geraldine Beasley so much, Chief Tom Streicher said, that she shot and killed Francis when he approached her,
"He asked her for a quarter," the chief said Tuesday.
Beasley, 62, of Walnut Hills, complained to someone else at the scene about the panhandling, Streicher said. Then, he said, when Francis asked her for money, she pulled out a gun and fired.
"That's apparently all there was to it," the chief said.
Beasley was charged with murder after police collected evidence at the scene and spoke to witnesses and Beasley, court documents said.
Beasley was in court today and ordered held on a $500,000 bond. Her attorney, Mass Ionna, told Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Fanon Rucker that his client has mental issues.
Beasley's history with the court system dates back 15 years, mostly traffic charges, eviction cases and civil judgments both for and against her.
Court records show no felony charges until now. She was fined in 2003 for improperly transporting a loaded gun after officers found one in her van.
Francis, 44, was the second homicide victim Monday night in Cincinnati.
A few minutes earlier, about 10:45 p.m., Jeral Grafinreed, 18, was shot to death on the sidewalk outside Richie's Fast Food Restaurant on Reading Road in Bond Hill.
Police found another man, 21, with a gunshot wound in his foot. That man, who was expected to recover, was taken to University Hospital.
Detectives have not made an arrest in the Grafinreed killing, but Streicher said they have a theory about what happened and believe the shooting occurred because of a previous dispute between Grafinreed and another man.
The homicides bring Cincinnati's total for the year to 43. That's 10 less than this time last year.
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