The El Cid incident was the ninth mass murder in Lexington since 2014. How many have been solved?

Last Friday's mass shooting at El Cid restaurant was the ninth mass shooting in Lexington since 2014, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a website that tracks shootings across the country.

The shooting occurred at about 12:19 a.m. at 701 National Avenue, the former El Cid restaurant. The building's owner said the gunman, who got out of the passenger seat of a car pulled up in front of the restaurant, fired through an open garage door into the tightly packed crowd inside the bar. One person was killed and five others were injured.

The Gun Violence Archive describes a mass shooting as an incident with at least four gunshot victims, not including the shooter. Last Friday's shooting left 31-year-old Antoine Clay dead and five others injured.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, four of the nine shootings resulted in at least one death and two resulted in an arrest. Here's a look at the two incidents that resulted in an arrest and the other seven that did not:

Mass shootings with arrests

October 1, 2023: Shooting in downtown Lexington

The most recent mass shooting before El Cid occurred in October 2023 at Silks Lounge on North Mill Street in downtown Lexington. Police said officers heard gunshots near the 100 block of Short and Mill Streets around 1:40 a.m. and soon found four victims with gunshot wounds.

One victim, 25-year-old Evan “Jayson” Smith, was seriously injured in the shooting. Smith was working as a security guard outside a local bar when he attempted to disarm someone who attempted to enter the bar with a gun after a fight.

The other victims were an 18-year-old woman, a 27-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man, according to Lexington police.

The shooter, 24-year-old Jamonte Robertson, was arrested at the scene. Police said Robertson had been involved in a fight before the shooting.

Robertson was indicted in December. He was charged with first-degree assault, three counts of fourth-degree assault, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, concealed carrying of a deadly weapon and repeat second-degree felon, court records show. He is being held at the Fayette County Detention Center on $50,000 bail.

June 30, 2014: Shooting at Scottsdale Circle

The only other mass murder in the past decade that resulted in an arrest occurred in June 2014. Kieara Green, 18, was one of four women injured in a murder at a home on Scottsdale Circle. Green died of her injuries two days later, but the other three victims recovered.

Allen Burgess, 25, was later arrested and charged with murder. More than four years later, he was sentenced to five years in prison after entering an Alford plea – meaning he pleaded not guilty but acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him if the trial continued – and he was charged with aiding and abetting murder.

Prosecutors said they agreed to the reduced charge of accessory after the fact because witnesses did not cooperate. Police had previously said Burgess had a long-standing feud with a man who was at the Scottsdale Circle home at the time of the shooting.

Burgess was linked to the shooting after police found bullet casings and a baseball cap in the yard next to the crime scene.

Mass shootings without arrests

August 9, 2024: Shooting in El Cid

The most recent mass shooting in Lexington occurred on August 9 at the El Cid restaurant on National Avenue. Police said six people were shot and one of the perpetrators, 31-year-old Antoine Clay, later died in the hospital.

According to police, the other victims were a 27-year-old woman, a 28-year-old woman, a 29-year-old woman, a 34-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.

Lexington Police continue to investigate the shooting with assistance from the FBI.

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September 10, 2022: Shooting at Georgetown Road and Parallel Road

At approximately 8:30 p.m., an officer was patrolling New Circle Road when he was flagged down by a vehicle reporting that three male victims had been shot. They were transported to a hospital where a fourth male victim was admitted with gunshot wounds.

According to police, the victims were 20, 22, 24 and 26 years old.

During the investigation, officers were told the shooting occurred in the area of ​​Georgetown Road and Parallel Road, south of Citation Boulevard. The incident was one of four shootings that evening.

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August 30, 2022: Shooting at Dunbar Community Center

In August 2022, seven people were injured – one seriously – at the Dunbar Community Center. Police said an ambulance took one victim to the hospital. Six others were later admitted to hospitals after being transported by private vehicles.

Police previously said several people had gathered at the community center for a barbecue. The shooting occurred near the basketball court, and it appeared that several people fired shots.

Police identified the victims as six men aged 18, 19, 21, 29, 34 and 40 and a 21-year-old woman.

August 27, 2022: Shooting at Wild Health Field

Seven people were injured at a private event at Wild Health Field in August 2022.

Two women were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. During the investigation, police said five other victims, including three women, were taken to local hospitals with gunshot wounds.

According to police, the victims ranged in age from 22 to 44. The incident was one of three shootings that evening.

May 7, 2022: Shooting in Green Acres Park

The deadliest mass shooting in Lexington since 2014 occurred in a park on LaSalle Road in May 2022. Police said they found 20-year-old Amaya Sandifer and 49-year-old James Bost Jr. with gunshot wounds when they responded to a 911 call about shots fired in the neighborhood around 1:15 a.m. Both died.

Three men were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. According to police, their ages were between 18 and 22 years.

Sandifer’s mother, Priscilla Sandifer spoke at a press conference on Thursday about the mass shooting in El Cid. She said her daughter was an innocent bystander who dropped off two friends at a birthday party and she had one semester left until she graduated from Tennessee State University.

“Gun violence is a real epidemic across the country,” Sandifer said. “The mass shootings are completely out of control and there is no control over the young people, maybe even the mentally ill.”

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July 31, 2021: Shooting on East Fifth Street

The shooting occurred around 9:13 p.m. in the 400 block of East Fifth Street. Police previously said officers found five victims with gunshot wounds, one of whom was in critical condition.

At the time, police did not know many details about the shooting, and it was unclear whether multiple people had fired the shots. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 64, according to police.

The incident was one of three shootings this weekend.

June 21, 2015: Shooting in Douglass Park

The shooting occurred on Father's Day during the annual Dirt Bowl League tournament, a basketball tournament that has been held at the park since the early 1970s. Kwame El-Amin, 42, and four other people were shot.

Kwame was the father of three children. The shooting remains unsolved.

Anyone with information regarding the unsolved mass shooting is asked to call Lexington Police at 859-258-3600. Anonymous tips can be made to Bluegrass Crime Stoppers by calling 859-253-2020 or through their website. Anonymous tips can also be made through the P3 Tips app at www.p3tips.com.