COLUMBUS — A shooting that left two people injured, one of them critically, capped a weekend of violence in Columbus.
UPDATE 4/26/18 7:16 a.m.: The victims in the Aberdeen Ave. homicide have been identified.
Police said one person was taken to Grant Medical Center in critical condition but has since been upgraded to stable condition after a shooting in the area of Pontiac Street and East Weber Road in North Linden at about 9 p.m. Sunday night, according to a report by WBNS 10-TV.
The shooting came less than 24 hours after three people were killed in separate shooting incidents, police said.
Columbus has had 31 homicides to date this year, slightly behind last year’s record pace of killings.
SWAT ARRESTS MURDER SUSPECTS:
*Yesterday, 4/22/18, 28yo Scott Salyer & Megan Purks were arrested & charged with murder or the 4/21/18 shooting death of 59yo Larry Dayton (M/W) in his Wisconsin Ave. home.
The investigation continues.
This is the 31st homicide in Columbus in 2018. pic.twitter.com/eWqpTKZDxN— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) April 23, 2018
Sgt. Jeff Strayer of the Homicide Unit says two men were found shot to death in a car in a North Linden alley and a third man was killed inside a house on the west side.
Officers called to alley behind 1183 Aberdeen Avenue, between McGuffey Road and Hamilton Avenue at 7:38 p.m. found two men inside a vehicle that had crashed into a tree, Strayer said.
Abdullahi Said Sharif Osman, 28, and Cabdul Khaliq Said Hussein, 20, were both unconscious and suffering from gunshot wounds, Strayer said. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Strayer says the preliminary investigation did not reveal any suspects or motives for the shooting.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.
Police arrested a man and woman Sunday in connection with the shooting death of a man the night before in a Franklinton house, Strayer said.
Larry Dayton, 59, was found inside a home on Wisconsin Avenue, north of W. Broad Street, at 8:46 p.m. Saturday and pronounced dead at the scene by Columbus fire personnel, Strayer said.
Investigators charged Scott Salyer, 28, and 18-year-old Meagan Purks with murder in the incident and Strayer says SWAT officers caught up with the couple near the intersection of Mound and Woodbury streets shortly after 9:00 Sunday morning.