COLUMBUS – Authorities say a 28-year-old man was gunned down outside a carryout on the North Side, one of three people who died violently on Sunday.
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Police were dispatched to Hudson Express Carryout at the corner of E. Hudson Street and Joyce Avenue at 3:52 p.m. on a report of a shooting, homicide unit Sgt. Dave Sicilian said. They found Jaron Valentine on the ground, suffering from a gunshot wound.
Police say Valentine was taken to Grant Medical Center where he died of his injuries.
The shooting was just blocks away from a home where four people were killed a week ago.
Valentine’s death came about 12 hours after a woman was allegedly shot by her boyfriend during an argument inside a vehicle on a Northeast Side street.
Sgt. Jeffrey R. Strayer says officers responding to a reported shooting at the intersection of St. Clair Avenue and E. 5th Avenue found the driver of the vehicle, later identified as Tashia Taylor, lying next to the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Taylor, 28, died a few minutes later at Grant Medical Center, Strayer said.
After questioning the other passengers in the vehicle, Strayer says homicide detectives charged Taylor’s boyfriend, James Shelton, 35, with murder in connection with her death.
Additional charges may be forthcoming, Strayer said.
According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch, Franklin County sheriff’s office detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a man that occurred around 2:00 a.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of Genessee Avenue in Mifflin Township.
The sheriff’s office had few details to share about the homicide.