COLUMBUS – Police say gunfire over the weekend in Columbus killed one man, wounded a 3-year-old girl as she slept on a living room couch, four people struck while they were at a vigil for a homicide victim and a teenager at a Far East Side gas station.
A total of 11 people were shot in eight separate incidents in the city, which has seen an alarming uptick in violent crime this summer.
UPDATE 7/22/20-SUSPECT WANTED FOR MURDER:
Arrest warrant was issued for 20yo Lason Booker. He’s charged with 26yo Jerome Steward’s Murder.
Info regarding Booker’s whereabouts-contact CPD: 614-645-4730 or hcollins@columbuspolice.org
*This is a 6/20 booking of Lason Booker https://t.co/n3u9X7jfwJ pic.twitter.com/81m79M4iox
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) July 22, 2020
Officers say Jerome Steward, 26, was shot in the 400 block of Southwood Avenue on the South Side Sunday afternoon. Officers applied a tourniquet and administered CPR but Steward died later at a hospital. He was the 69th homicide victim of the year, Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit said.
UPDATE: 7/22/20 6:33 a.m.: Police have filed an arrest warrant for Lason Booker, 20, in the shooting death of Jerome Steward.
Police say the 3-year-old had a minor leg injury after someone fired three gunshots through the front door of a home in the 500 block of Woodbury Avenue shortly after 3:00 a.m. Saturday. The girl was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital where she was expected to recover.
4 SHOT AT VIGIL 4 HOMICIDE VICTIM:
7/17/20@8:39pm-officers called to E. 6th Ave. & Summit St. Victims@Weinland Park
Witness said several people fired into crowd-stiking 4 victims:
18yo Dreauna Rogers
18yo Kiomii Crumpton
25yo Darryl Johnson
20yo Ayana LewisCPD:614-645-3689 pic.twitter.com/31X5v1hKcP
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) July 19, 2020
Someone opened fire shortly after 8:30 p.m. Friday at a Weinland Park vigil, striking four people, including two 18-year-olds, a 20-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man. Police said none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
A 17-year-old was shot while sitting in a vehicle at the Sunoco gas station at 7700 Kennedy Road at approximately 7:09 p.m. Saturday. He was in stable condition.
Other victims included a 20-year-old man shot at Eastland Mall, a 26-year-old man shot at the corner of Mount Street and Glenwood Avenue Saturday, a 62-year-old man shot while pumping gas in the 1500 block of Lockbourne Road Sunday and a 19-year-old man shot in the 200 block of Princeton Avenue Sunday.