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.