Police identify man fatally shot at East Side apartment building
Police have identified a man who was fatally shot at an East Side apartment building early Thursday.
Melly Mel Marquise Smith, 27, was found by officers called to the 1900 block of Fountainview Court, near East Livingston Avenue and Brice Road, on a report of a shooting around 1:10 a.m. Thuesday, according to Columbus police.
Officers discovered Smith in the apartment building s shared stairwell, suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Mount Carmel East Hospital and was pronounced dead around 3 a.m.
Later that same day, officers arrested Amir Elkhabiry, 23, and charged him with murder in Smith s death.
Two people have been killed and two men have been arrested in separate, unrelated incidents early Thursday morning on opposite sides of Columbus, putting the city s homicide rate in 2021 nearly two months ahead of last year s all-time record.
Around 1:10 a.m. Thursday, officers were dispatched in response to a reported shooting in an apartment complex on the 1900 block of Fountainview Court, located off East Livingston Avenue, on the East Side.
Police found a 27-year-old man who had been shot. That man, who had not yet been identified as of mid-afternoon Thursday, was rushed in critical condition to Mount Carmel East hospital, where he died at 3:11 a.m.