In Bath Township, Ohio, Police Chief Vito Sinopoli (left) briefs reporters at a news conference, Nov. 2, 2025, about a shooting at an Airbnb rental property in which nine people were injured.
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“We are heartbroken by this senseless act of gun violence, and our thoughts are with the injured victims and everyone affected by it,” Airbnb said in a statement to ABC News on Sunday afternoon. “Unauthorized and disruptive gatherings are strictly banned on Airbnb and our security team acted immediately to remove the account of the person who deliberately violated those rules by booking this stay.”
“Our police response team is in contact with the Chief of the Bath Township Police Department to assist in their ongoing investigation and ensure those responsible for this horrific incident are brought to justice,” the statement concluded.
Sinopoli said Sunday’s incident marked the second time since July 2017 that a shooting occurred at an Airbnb rental property in Bath Township. He said in the previous incident a man was shot in the leg. That incident involved an apparent drive-by shooting at a party, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
Sunday’s shooting came just days after Airbnb announced it was rolling out what it called “anti-party” AI technology in the United States and Canada to help mitigate Halloween night gatherings.
The company said it is using machine learning to block reservations that show potential holiday risks, “such as the length of the reservation, the distance of the listing from the guest’s location, the type of property, and the timing of the reservation, including last-minute requests.”
This is the fifth year that Airbnb has instituted protections against Halloween parties, which banned 38,000 people from booking homes in the United States and 6,300 in Canada last year, according to the company.
Airbnb issued a permanent global party ban in 2022 after multiple shootings.
“Strong policies must be complemented by strong enforcement,” the company said at the time. “We have introduced a number of anti-party measures in recent years to enforce our policy and try, as best we can, to stop both unauthorized parties and chronic party houses.”
