COLUMBUS- A suspect was killed in a shootout with Columbus police officers and a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy on the East Side Saturday night.
UPDATE 7/12/23 6:27 a.m.: This article has been edited to include newly released information from police.
It was the second fatal shooting involving law enforcement officers in Columbus in two days.
A Franklin County sheriff’s deputy working special duty at the Walgreens drug store on E. Livingston Avenue, near James Road, was flagged down by a man who said someone was outside with a gun, according to a press release from the Columbus Division of Police.
The deputy heard shots being fired as he left the store and encountered the suspect at a nearby apartment building, where shots were exchanged between the suspect and the deputy outside of the building, police said.
An officer-in-trouble call was aired at 7:53 p.m. and Columbus police officers responded.
They began investigating inside of the apartment building where the suspect had retreated and encountered him on the lower level.
Four Columbus officers fired shots, striking the suspect, who was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m., authorities said.
A firearm was recovered from the scene.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
No officers or deputies were injured in the incident, the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.
Two men are facing federal charges in an armed robbery spree that ended with a police shootout on a West Side freeway Thursday afternoon that left a third suspect dead and an officer critically wounded.