Car chase leads to shooting, wreck in Southside
Police are investigating two unrelated shootings since Monday afternoon in Columbus, the second of which occurred during a late-night car chase in Southside.
At about midnight, the second shooting victim was driving down Seventh Street South followed by a black, four-door sedan, Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton said. A person in the pursuing car was shooting at the lead vehicle. After the driver of the lead vehicle was hit with a bullet, Shelton said, he crashed near the intersection of Fifth Avenue South.
“(His injuries) were serious enough to be transferred out to (an out-of-town) hospital,” Shelton said.