Shooting and Death
Kabaka Oba was shot at approximately 2:55 p.m. April 12, 2006 across from Cincinnati City Hall near 810 Plum Street after addressing Cincinnati City Council. He was shot while sitting in his late model green Ford Mustang with Ohio vanity plates "KABAKA".
He was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he received surgery and had been listed in critical condition as of the evening of April 12, 2006. He died three days later at the same hospital on April 15, 2006.
Visitation was scheduled for 4 - 6 p.m. Sunday, April 23, 2006 at the Corinthian Baptist Church, at 772 Whittier St. in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati.
Oba was interred on Monday, April 24, 2006, in a plot at the Crown Hill Memorial Park in Colerain Township next to Roger Owensby, Jr., a black man who died while in Cincinnati police custody in 2000, in accordance with the wishes of Owensby's father.
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