COLUMBUS – Three shooting incidents in a little over 24 hours left two Columbus men dead and sent two others to area hospitals.
Mark Tyshawn-Dominique Hardy, 27, died at Grant Medical Center Tuesday night, less than an hour after being shot during a fight, apparently over drugs, near Roosevelt Park at the intersection of Lockbourne Road and E. Kossuth Street, Homicide Unit Sgt. Jeff Strayer said.
A second victim, Charles Allen Jr., 31, was listed in critical condition at Grant, Strayer said.
Strayer says the preliminary investigation indicated that Hardy and Allen were together with a group of people outside a duplex across the street from the park when a fight broke out just before 7:00 p.m., resulting in the shooting. The initial cause of the altercation is unknown but Strayer says it appear that drugs may have been a factor.
No arrests had been made early Wednesday morning.
This was the third homicide of 2019 in Columbus, Strayer said.
Minutes later, officers inside the police substation at 2070 Sullivant Avenue heard gunshots and found Brent Bishop, 30, with a gunshot wound to his leg. He was transported to an area hospital in stable condition.
The two unrelated incidents came a little more than than 24 hours after officers called to a home in the 3400 block of Kimberly Avenue on a report of a man who was not breathing found the body of Andre Lamar Franks, 39, on the floor inside, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, Strayer said.
Investigators had not revealed a motive or any suspects early Wednesday morning.
The investigations continue.
Anyone with any information about the incidents is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or the Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (614-461-8477).