COLUMBUS – Three people, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed and five others injured in separate shooting incidents in Columbus over the weekend.
Dayvion Jones was walking in 5300 block of Hazelwood Road at approximately 4:00 p.m. Sunday when he was shot by one of a group of males in a stolen SUV during a confrontation and died at Riverside Methodist Hospital, said Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit.
The suspects fled in the stolen SUV and crashed near the intersection of Tamarack and Forest Village where they ran away, Marable said.
This was the 18th homicide of 2021 in Columbus.
Investigators are looking for a woman they say shot two men, one of them fatally, on the Southeast Side Friday afternoon, Sgt. Eric Pilya said.
Officers responded to an address in the 4900 block of Bottlebrush Drive just after 12:20 p.m. found two men who were both taken to area hospitals with gunshot wounds.
Reginald Byrd, 39, was pronounced dead while James Mims, 22, was injured, Pilya said.
The investigation indicates that a woman known to both men shot them and then fled the scene, Pilya 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 (8477).
An East Side man was charged with murder after the 31-year-old man he allegedly shot during a fight at a Far East Side gas station died of his injuries. Marable said.
Police say Nehemiah Martin, 31 (right), and Brandon Clark were arguing at the Shell station at 5989 E. Main Street just after 8:00 p.m. Saturday when Martin shot the other man who died the following day at Mt. Carmel East Hospital, Marable said. Martin was arrested at a relative’s home without incident shortly after the shooting.
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A 14-year-old boy was recovering from injuries after he was shot near the intersection of E. Main Street and S. Weyant Avenue Saturday afternoon, police said.
A 18-year-old man says he was shot in a road-rage incident on a downtown freeway Saturday night.
Elon Harris told police he was on the on ramp from I-70 westbound to I-71 northbound at approximately 9:04 p.m. when the driver of an older-model white Nissan Altima, upset about Harris’s driving, pulled up from behind him to the right side of Harris’s vehicle and fired three shots into the vehicle and then drove away, said Det. Ian Pruitt of the Felony Assault Unit.
One of the bullets hit Harris in the right arm and he was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in stable condition.
Pruitt says Harris described the gunman as a male black with braided hair.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Columbus Police Felony Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
Two other men were shot in separate incidents Sunday.