COLUMBUS – The new year was four days old before Columbus recorded its first homicide of 2022, a 25-year-old man found shot to death inside a home in Clintonville.
UPDATE 1/5/22 6:46 a.m.: The name of the victim in this incident was released by police Tuesday.
Officers called to the 2900 block of Indianola Avenue at 12:37 a.m. on a reported shooting found Andrew Santiago suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, Sgt. James Marable of the Columbus police Homicide Unit said.
Police say Santiago was pronounced dead at the scene and witnesses reported a man was seen running away, Marable said.
A record 204 homicides were reported in Columbus in 2021, according to preliminary data from the Division of Police.
There were 177 homicides in Columbus in 2020 and 104 in 2019.
One man died and another was injured in a shooting in the 500 block of Champion Avenue at approximately 8:43 p.m. on Dec. 30. The names of the victims are being withheld pending identification and notification of next-of-kin, according to Sgt. Edward Powell III of the Homicide Unit.
A teenager was the victim of the final homicide of the year, reported a few hours before midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Officers dispatched to the area of Ashburton Rd and Mayfair Park Place to investigate a report of a body of an apparent shooting victim found Tyshawn Dickerson unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound, Sgt. David Shimberg said.
The 15-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
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).
Two charged in April triple shooting
Detectives have charged a man who was already in jail in northeast Ohio with two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in connection with a shooting in April that left two men dead and another injured, Marable said.
Datwain Crudup, 27, is at the Lorain Correctional Institution on an unrelated criminal case, Marable said.
He is charged in connection with the shooting at 931 Eaton Avenue on April 3 that left a 24-year-old and a 19-year-old dead and a 30-year-old man in critical condition.