COLUMBUS – A teenager was among three people shot to death in separate incidents in Columbus in the past few days.
Police say 17-year-old Javon Tyrese Carson was killed in a shooting incident on the Northeast Side early Friday that also left two other men injured, Homicide Unit Sgt. Jeff Strayer said.
Carson’s body was found lying in the street in the 4100 block of Chesford Road at 1:30 a.m. by officers responding to a report of a man lying in the roadway and he was pronounced dead at Riverside Methodist Hospital, Strayer said.
Meanwhile, Fahad Mohammed Moalim, 20, and Abdisan Ahmed Shire, 29, each arrived at St. Ann’s Hospital separately with wounds Strayer says appeared to have been suffered during the same shooting incident that ended in Carson’s death. Moalim was wounded in the face while Shire had been hit in the hand, Strayer said.
The circumstances of the shootings are still under investigation and all available parties are currently being questioned, Strayer said. No charges had been filed as of early Monday.
At 7:16 a.m. Friday, a man whose name has not been released was dropping his dog off at a friend’s house in the 1900 block of Minnesota Avenue when someone got out of a silver car and shot the man several times, Sgt. Eric Pilya said.
The 23-year-old victim died later at Grant Medical Center, Pilya said.
A man who accidentally shot a friend Sunday afternoon was charged with tampering with evidence.
Kendle Daigle was in the apartment of Muhammed Loum on Brendel Drive at approximately 12:21 p.m. when Daigle handed him a loaded firearm and Pilya says the gun went off, hitting Daigle, 25, who died later at the hospital.
Loum, 20, removed the gun from the scene, resulting in the tampering charge Pilya said.
The three shootings raised the total of homicides in Columbus in 2018 to 81.
Anyone with information regarding any of the incidents is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.