COLUMBUS – One man is dead and two others injured after separate incidents a few blocks apart north of downtown Columbus.
Columbus police say they are looking for two men and a woman in connection with an apparent deadly shooting in the 900 block of N. 4th Street early Monday morning, Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit said.
Officers responding to a report from a passerby that a dead man was lying near dumpsters in the rear parking lot of a business at 4:17 a.m. found the man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Marable said.
Surveillance video shows the victim and another man walking back to the dumpster near the alley between N. 4th Street and Hamlet Street at approximately 2:24 a.m., where they begin fighting, Marable said.
While the two men are fighting, another man runs into view from Hamlet Street and reaches into the front pocket of his shorts before joining the fight.
At the same time, Marable says a woman runs southeast across the parking lot from Hamlet Street.
After reaching the dumpster, all three almost immediately flee, the woman and one man run south from the scene while the other man flees southbound on Hamlet Street, Marable said.
Detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects.
The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification of his family.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact Det. Huffman at 614-645-4146 or MHuffman@ColumbusPolice.org or to call Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
Two men were listed in stable condition after being injured in a shooting less than 24 hours later and a few blocks north of the scene of the fatal shooting.
Police responding to a shooting at an apartment complex in the 1300 Block N. 4th Street at 12:59 a.m. Tuesday found two men, age 29 and 39, who had been shot and nearly two dozen spent shell casings nearby, according to detectives with the Felony Assault Unit.
One of the victims was shot in both feet and taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center while the other victim was in stable condition at to OSU Wexner Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his right thigh, police said.
Detectives recovered 22 spent casings in the alley east of the apartment complex where the shooting happened.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Felony Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).