COLUMBUS – The second deadliest year in Columbus grew deadlier over the weekend with four homicides reported since late Friday night, including two on Sunday.
Two men shot to death in separate incidents Sunday became the 117th and 118th homicide victims of 2017, the deaths following those of two other men killed in a triple shooting late Friday night, police said.
Homicides in Columbus (2010-17)
2010 105
2011 96
2012 91
2013 92
2014 91
2015 99
2016 106
2017 118 (through 11/19)
-Source: Columbus Div. of Police
Officers dispatched to the rear of 21 S. Princeton Avenue on the call of shooting at approximately 11:50 a.m. Sunday found William Golden in the alley, suffering from a gunshot wound, said Sgt. Stanley Latta of the Homicide Unit.
Golden, 60, was taken to Mt. Carmel West Hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead at approximately 1:00 p.m., Latta said
At 8:49 p.m. police called to the Grand Champion North Bar on E. Dublin-Granville Road found Martise Maddox-Suddith in the parking area just east of the bar, Latta said. Maddox-Suddith was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police had no known suspects or motives in either shooting early Monday.
Anyone with information regarding the incidents is asked to contact the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477.
The highest number of homicides recorded in Columbus was 139 in 1991.