COLUMBUS – Three men and one teenager were killed and six other people injured in separate shooting incidents over just two days in Columbus.
The most recent incident occurred just after 10:00 Sunday night when 15-year-old Musse Abdikadir Hassan was shot to death in the 700 block of Canonby Place and Abdikadir Abdirahman Abdi, who was delivering a pizza in the area, was injured by the gunfire, detectives said.
This was the 54th homicide of the year in Columbus.
It came minutes after a shooting in a parking lot in the 2400 block of N. Cassady Avenue left Darius Lanier-Walker, 25, dead, Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit said.
The violence began just before 12:44 a.m. Saturday when police say Joshua Michael Jennings fired gunshots at a home in the 2500 block of Vanderberg Avenue, on the West Side, hitting Daniel Maurice, 38, in the head and killing him, Marable said.
Jennings, 32, drove away and was arrested at the Marathon gas station at 2805 W. Broad Street after his car was spotted by a Columbus police sergeant.
Shaquille Conner, 23, died after detectives say he was shot during a gun battle with an unknown suspect in front of the XL Lounge, 1536 N. Cassady Avenue, just after 1:00 Sunday morning. He died later at Grant Medical Center, Sgt. Doug Jones said.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.
Marable says this raised the total number of homicides in Columbus in 2020 to 53.
Five other men were wounded in shootings incidents Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday
3:03 a.m.: Kevin Greenhow. 25, was shot after fueling his car at the Sunoco Gas Station at 1905 Cleveland Avenue. He drove himself to Grant Medical Center and was in stable
4:48 a.m.: Douglas Bailey, 27, was shot during a large fight outside an after-hours establishment at 2449 W. Broad Street and was taken to Grant Medical Center where police say he was uncooperative with investigators.
4:28 p.m.: Joshua Mosely, 25, walked into a hospital with gunshot wound to his foot. He told investigators he was walking along Refugee Road near Gender Road, on the Southeast Side when someone in a gray sedan fired several shots at him at the car passed him.
10:47 p.m.: Nidal Abumallouh, 29, shot in the 2400 block of Milford Avenue, was listed in stable condition.
Sunday
12:45 a.m.: David Hustlar, 25, allegedly shot Darren Chandler Sr., whose daughter was the mother of Hustlar’s child, during an argument at a home on Stevens Avenue that also involved the woman’s current boyfriend, during which Hustlar and Chandler both pulled handguns.
Anyone with any information about these incidents is asked to contact the Columbus Police Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.
Elsewhere, police say a half-dozen shootings wounded six men in less than 24 hours in Cleveland.