COLUMBUS — Columbus police say an officer fatally shot a suspect while responding to a stabbing spree on the Northeast Side Monday morning that left three other people dead.
UPDATE 5/1/18 6:21 a.m.: Police have identified the officer who fired the shots as Sgt. Gregg Seevers, a 21-year veteran
Two women and a man and the male suspect all died at area hospitals after the attack at two different locations, division spokesman Sgt. Dean Worthington said.
Officers summoned to an apartment complex on Walford Drive at 9:11 a.m. found a female victim in the parking lot and then encountered the suspect, who was armed with a knife, Worthington said.
One officer, later identified as Sgt. Gregg Seevers, shot the suspect while another officer stunned the man with a Taser, Worthington said.
The suspect died about an hour later Riverside Methodist Hospital, Worthington said.
Two other women were found inside an apartment on Walford Drive and a man was found at an address on the 2100 block of Fitzroy Avenue, about a block away, Worthington said.
Two of the women and the male victim died and a third woman was in stable condition at a different hospital, Worthington said.
Officers were seen carrying small children from the scene but police say the children who were present weren’t injured.
Police haven’t publicly identified the suspect or the victims, or said how the attack unfolded or what might have motivated it.
Community Refugee and Immigration Services told WBNS 10-TV that some of the victims are members of a family who resettled to the United States from the African country of Eritrea last summer.
Police say no officers were injured.
Worthington says this is the fifth officer-involved shooting in Columbus this year.