HILLIARD, Ohio – Records show police responded frequently to disturbances in the past year at the Far West Side apartment of a man who was fatally shot after lunging at an officer with a knife outside the terminal at Port Columbus International Airport.
The most recent report came Tuesday, one day before the shooting. That’s when an apartment property manager reported someone fitting the suspect’s description was scaring residents by yelling and talking to himself as he loaded items into a vehicle.
Police say Columbus airport officers shot and killed Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed on Wednesday during a confrontation by his improperly parked car.
Airport Authority spokeswoman Angie Tabor identified the officers as Ofc. Hussein Hartman, who has been a full-time officer with the Columbus Regional Airport Authority Police Department for 15 years; Ofc. Dan Harper, a seven-year veteran of the airport police force, and Ofc. Ryan Ward, who has over 12 years of experience as a police officer, the last two with the airport police department.
The records say police responded to a domestic violence report in September and Abdul-Rasheed’s wife said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had not been taking his medication.
The Columbus Dispatch reported Thursday afternoon that a Cuyahoga County judge found Abdul-Rasheed not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of attempted murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, grand theft and gun possession in the 1999 shooting of a Cleveland woman.