COLUMBUS, Ohio – There were plenty of people around when O’Shequen Strickland was shot, but no one has been arrested in the death of the 18-year-old man on the East Side Thursday afternoon.
Strickland was shot just before at 2:46 p.m. inside a bedroom of a home at 1829 Penfield Court South. Officers found him in a bedroom with a gunshot wound and he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:46 p.m., Homicide Unit detectives said
Multiple witnesses at the scene were taken to Columbus Police headquarters for interviews and another person – identified only as a black male — had fled the scene the officers arrived but the actual facts relating to the shooting remain shrouded in mystery, investigators said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Crime Stoppers at 614-645-TIPS.