Columbus police homicide detectives have identified a Northeast Side man as the person found shot early Sunday morning in a vehicle in a South Linden alley.
Jamaal Dixon, 37, of the Northeast Side, died at 2:19 a.m. Sunday at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.
According to police, Dixon was found around 1:48 a.m. Sunday in a car in an alley off East 25th Avenue near Medina Avenue. Dixon had been shot and was rushed to the hospital.
Police have not publicly identified any suspects or a motive in the case.
Dixon s death was the 59th homicide in Columbus in 2021.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call homicide detectives at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.
Sidney Leister felt content in most aspects of his life.
He’d married his beloved Brenda in 2014. He was nearing retirement from a fulfilling career in hospital customer service and looked forward to adding a puppy to the family and traveling more.
Still, he felt incomplete.
The final step of his transition to a transgender man, which he began more than a decade earlier, lay out of reach at least it seemed that way to the Hilliard resident.
In his 60s, he thought he was too old to have transmasculine bottom surgery. He’d already paid $5,000 for reconstructive surgery on his chest at the Cleveland Clinic in 2010. Traveling out of town for a more complicated surgery that would alter the genital region and require weeks of recovery in a strange city was daunting.