13-year-old girl shot after fleeing from group of teens

COLUMBUS (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old Ohio girl was shot inside a North Linden home after fleeing inside from a group of teenage boys.

Columbus police say the victim was sitting with friends on the porch of a home in the 1700 block of Piedmont Road neighborhood shortly before 1:00 a.m. Sunday when the teens approached from an alley.

Police said the girl and her friends ran inside the home, and one member of the group began firing at the residence.

The victim was struck once in the thigh.

Police said witnesses were unable to provide any information about the suspects.

The shooting was one of four incidents involving teenagers over the holiday weekend.

Police are looking for a 17-year-old boy who has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a man during a fight on the Southeast Side Monday afternoon.

Frank Turner was charged in the death of John Arthur Wilson III, who was shot during a fight involving more than a half-dozen people in the 1100 block of Smith Road at approximately 12:58 p.m., Homicide Unit detectives said.

Officers received reports of six to eight people fighting in the street outside 1182 Smith Road and additional callers reported hearing gunshots.

Officers located Wilson, 22, suffering from at least one gunshot wound.

Columbus Division of Fire paramedics took him to Grant Medical Center where he died at 1:52 p.m.

This is the 40th homicide of the year in Columbus.

Anyone with information regarding the incident or the whereabouts of Frank Turner is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.

Shortly after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dalevonte Vance told police officers he was driving eastbound in an alley south of E. Main Street when a black male, described as 16-17 years old, wearing a jean jacket, white T-shirt, and blue jeans, fired two shots into the passenger side of Vance’s Honda Accord before fleeing.

Vance was taken to an area hospital where he is expected to make a complete recovery from a single gunshot wound to his right leg.

About three hours later, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the left leg when a passenger in the back seat of a white Dodge Charger, which was traveling southbound on Dresden Street near Loretta Avenue, fired a weapon at the occupants of another vehicle, which was passing in the opposite direction.

Police say the victim was of the shooting was “extremely uncooperative and combative.”

Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 614-645-4141.