COLUMBUS – A 3-year-old boy injured when shots were fired into a South Side home Saturday afternoon was one of six people wounded by gunfire in Columbus between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.
Columbus police say the boy was wounded in the abdomen when a man in a black SUV pulled up behind a home in the 1800 block of S. 4th Street at approximately 1:22 p.m. and fired several shots into the building.
The child was taken to a hospital in critical condition where he was upgraded to stable condition after surgery.
Police say the child was upstairs with his grandmother inside the home when the shots were fired.
Two 19-year-old men were listed in stable condition after being shot inside a vehicle on a Northeast Side street Friday afternoon.
Officers found Cravion Johnson and Tyresse Smith inside the vehicle in the area of Oakland Park avenue and McGuffey Road at shortly after 4:00 p.m., detectives said.
Police were looking for two teenage suspects.
One man was stabbed and another shot during a fight outside a Short North bar early Monday morning.
Police say Chris Wilson, 29, and Trequan Fowler, 23, were arguing with two suspects outside of the Monarch Bar, 700 N. High Street shortly after 3:00 a.m. when the four began fighting and one of the suspects produced a knife, cutting Fowler in the ear, causing a minor injury.
The other suspect went back to a vehicle and retrieved a handgun and fired at Wilson eight times, striking him once in the back.
Police say a witness saw the suspects drive away in a silver Ford F150 truck.
Officers found Abraham Gebremariam, 30, sitting on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of S. Hamilton Road at about 5:15 a.m. Monday morning, suffering from a gunshot wound.
He was listed in stable condition at Mt. Carmel East Hospital.
Anyone with information regarding any of these incidents are asked to contact the Columbus Police Felony Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS(8477).