COLUMBUS – Three people died in separate incidents in Franklin County Tuesday, including a resident who confronted a man police say was ransacking cars in a Galloway neighborhood and two people who died in a traffic crash on the West Side that also involved a deadly shooting.
Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies responding at approximately 11:00 p.m. to several 911 calls about a single-car crash in the eastbound lanes of W. Broad Street found a Ford Crown Victoria had crashed into the bridge abutment column at the I-270 overpass in Prairie Township, Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said.
Detectives need your help identifying the gunman who fired shots at a vehicle heading east on W. Broad St. at about 11PM Tuesday. Two people were killed. The suspect may be driving an early to mid-2000s red or maroon Mercury sedan. If you information, please call 614-525-3351. pic.twitter.com/gnGJkbzwE6
— Franklin County Sheriff’s Office (@OHFCSO) June 1, 2022
Deputies found that the driver of the car had been shot at least one time and his female passenger had also sustained life treating injuries, likely from the crash, Baldwin said.
Prairie Township Fire Department medics pronounced the driver dead at the scene.
The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital.
Detectives investigating the incident believe the victims were fired upon by another vehicle while driving on W. Broad Street, possibly an early- to mid-2000’s red or maroon Mercury sedan.
The identity of the victims is being withheld pending notification of the next-of-kin.
The motive for the shooting is unknown at this time and no arrest have been made.
Sheriff’s Office Detectives continue to investigate.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau at 614-525-3351
A man police say confronted someone who was ransacking his wife’s car in his driveway in Galloway early Tuesday morning was killed by the suspect, police said.
Joshua Moyer was leaving for work at approximately 4:22 a.m. when his discovered a male rummaging through his wife’s car which was parked in the couple’s driveway outside their home in the 6100 block of Parkglen Road, Sgt. James Marable of the Columbus police homicide unit said.
Moyer, 39, confronted the man and attempted to detain him until police arrived but the suspect shot Moyer to death during the struggle that took place.
Moyer was pronounced dead at the scene by Columbus Division of Fire personnel.
The crime was captured on video and Marable says investigators discovered that the shooter had broken into a several cars in the immediate area (see map).
Anyone in the area whose vehicle was broken into, or has video from the time of the incident, is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730.
This is the 53rd homicide in Columbus this year.