09-03-2025
UD student speaks on Saturday's early St. Paddy's party
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A University of Dayton student spoke about what he witnessed at Saturday's street party, specifically on Lowes Street.
At 10 p.m. the school released an alert regarding shots fired on Jasper Street. No injuries were reported.
Multiple medics were called to neighborhoods filled with student housing on Saturday. There were five arrests made.
Shots-fired alert ends busy day at UD that already had tear gas, arrests, hospital trips
Nick Mulvihill, a finance major and senior at UD spoke to our 2 News team. Mulvihill lives on Lowes and has experienced the pre- St. Paddy's parties over the last four years.
'Obviously, it's a Dayton tradition. I've seen love doing the whole Forties at Four and coming out here with you know, 10,000 undergrads basically,' said Mulvihill.
(Forties at Four is a drinking game in which a person tries to drink a 40-ounce bottle of beer/malt at 4 p.m.)
He continued, explaining what the day was like for him. He mentioned that he got to pet police horses.
'Living on the street that the day drink happens, you know, a ton of fun. But yeah, once the police started shooting pepper spray and all the pepper balls, but that's when I kind of got out of hand,' said Mulvihill. 'But really – I enjoy the police trying their best to prevent a lot of the dangers from happening. In past years, we've had, you know, cars being flipped.'
He said he was thankful for and appreciated the police but found some of their orders confusing.
'I appreciate them for, you know, trying to prevent that. But once they start shooting pepper spray into a couple of our friend's houses and then they tell us to go inside, that's when it gets a little problematic. 'cause like, hey, where do we go, my whole house is pepper sprayed?'
He spoke more on when it got 'real' between the students and the cops.
'I was in the second floor of my house just watching everything happen. And them basically chasing down Dayton students and students in general. I thought that was pretty confusing. I was, you know, really just worried for everyone's safety,' said Mulvihill.
His suggestions for next year included keeping the mounted police and the street shut down. He shared thoughts of finding safer ways of dispersing crowds.
2 News has reached out to UD Police for comment but hasn't heard back.
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