There was a shooting in the city last week that drew a considerable amount of attention. Maybe you heard about it.
What am I saying? Of course you heard about it. If you were in central Ohio last week, you heard about it.
Police say two armed young men with a beef encountered each other inside the mall. One fired shots at the other inside a Carter s baby clothing store. The shooter left the mall, but his target followed him outside and returned fire.
No one was hurt, but the shooting understandably sent shoppers and mall employees running for cover. Columbus police and other nearby law enforcement agencies rushed to the scene in droves, a warranted reaction based on the limited early information about daytime gunfire in a mall.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio After setting a new high of 174 homicides last year, Columbus is already on pace to surpass that number.
However, those numbers don t tell the full story about the violence in our city s streets. Many more people are shot and are fortunate to survive.
So far this year, there have been 421 felonious assaults, which include shootings, stabbings and other serious injuries.
The Ohio Attorney General s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting by Columbus police after responding to a shooting call Tuesday afternoon in South Linden .
Sgt. James Fuqua, Columbus police spokesman, said police received a ShotSpotter alert and a separate 911 call about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday about a shooting at a residence on the 2200 block of Homestead Drive neat Clinton Street.
A male neighbor called to report an emergency at the home next door on Homestead, saying a man had shot a female during an argument and that the female needed help. He called multiple times, Fuqua said.
Officers arrived at the scene and at 1:41 p.m. aired an alert that a suspect was running from the location of the shooting, Fuqua said. Officers pursued the suspect and took him into custody at 1:56 p.m., he said.