Gunfire at Ohio vigil for homicide victim kills 1, hurts 5
April 18, 2021 GMT
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) Gunfire killed one person and injured five others at an Ohio strip mall parking lot where a memorial vigil was being held to honor another person killed a year ago at the same location, authorities said.
Columbus police Lt. Dan Hargus confirmed one person was pronounced dead at 7:50 p.m. Saturday and five others were injured in what appeared to be a drive-by shooting in a parking lot of a Truro Township shopping plaza southeast of the city, the Columbus Dispatch reported. All of the injured were in stable condition, he said.
Updated: 2:38 PM EDT April 18, 2021
One woman was killed and five others were hurt in a drive-by shooting that happened during a vigil Saturday night at a Dollar General on Chatterton Road in Truro Township, according to authorities.
The Franklin County Sheriff s Office said a small group of people had gathered in the parking lot when a dark-colored SUV, possibly a Dodge Durango drove by and starting firing into the crowd around 7:30 p.m.
The Franklin County Sheriff s Office says Latoya Carpenter, 39, was driving by the store as shots were fired.
Carpenter was struck in the head and crashed her vehicle into a parked car in the parking lot of the Cross Key Apartments near the Dollar General, according to the sheriff s office.
LaToya Renee Carpenter hadn t been gone from the apartment more than a few minutes when her fiance, Perez Williams, heard banging on their door.
Roused from a nap, Williams answered it to find his niece and some other friends and family, frantic as they told him what had just happened. Carpenter had been shot, they said, and she had not survived.
Williams was in disbelief.
“I said, Ain t no way, because she just walked out the door, ” Williams, 50, said.
Carpenter left her Truro Township apartment, just southeast of Columbus, just before 7:30 p.m. to pick up her 11-year-old daughter from her sister s home.
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