COLUMBUS – The deaths of two people in separate shooting incidents and the discovery of a dead woman in a car added to the record number of homicides in Columbus this year.
There have been six murders in the last four days in the city, raising the number of homicides in Columbus in 2020 to 160 with more than three weeks remaining in the year.
Officers dispatched to a shooting at a convenience store at 6175 Livingston Avenue at 11:00 p.m. Monday found a 20-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, Sgt. David Shimberg of the Homicide Unit said.
Osjahnique Giles died her injuries at a hospital while the juvenile victim is expected to recover.
Shimberg says officers were able to locate a scene at Livingston Avenue and I-270, a few blocks west of where the victims were found, but the motive behind the incident was still unclear.
This incident is still under investigation:
Ldarrin O’Neal was stopped in the line for the drive-thru at Thirsty’s Drive Thru, 4027 E. Livingston Avenue, just before 10:00 p.m. two men got out of a maroon, four door hatchback in front of his vehicle and approached the driver’s side door of O’Neal’s ca, Sgt. James Marable said.
A struggle ensued, shots were fired, and the two men fled the scene in the hatchback.
O’Neal, 19, was transported to Mount Carmel East Hospital where he died 10:49 p.m.
A missing person’s unit detective conducting a follow-up found the missing woman he had been looking for, dead in a car parked behind 2058 Winslow Drive just after 2:00 p.m., Sgt. Eridc Pilya of the Homicide Unit said.
The cause of death is unknown and there was no suspect information early Tuesday but the death is being investigated as a homicide, Pilya said.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).