COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police say officers shot and critically wounded a man who matched the description of a suspect in a carjacking and armed robbery in Dublin.
Authorities say the shooting occurred during a confrontation in a garage Tuesday morning after an officer spotted the man on the Hilltop.
Columbus police say a pellet gun and cash were found in the garage but
the injured man hadn’t fired at officers.
The sequence of events began at 7:00 a.m. when Dublin Police officers responding to a report of suspicious activity found two suspects in the area of Parkcenter and Bradenton Drives, spokeswoman Jodi Andes said.
While the officers questioned the suspects, one of them, identified as Charles Gollihue, ran away with an officer in pursuit, Andes said. Gollihue, 37, car-jacked a vehicle at gunpoint from an office building parking lot at 5626 Frantz Road.
At 7:49 a.m., Columbus officers responding to a robbery at a BP convenience store at Bethel Road and Sawmill Roads aired a description of the suspect and his vehicle, a black Pontiac, on the police radio channel which was being monitored by Dublin Police who said the suspect matched that of Gollihue, Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner said.
Weiner says Dublin investigators believed Gollihue might be returning to the area of W. Broad Street and Hague Avenue and the information was passed on to Columbus officers on the West Side.
A patrol officer spotted the vehicle and the suspect entering an abandoned garage in the area of N. Warren Avenue and Grace Street, Weiner said.
Two undercover officers responded to the officer’s call for back-up and entered the garage on N. Warren Street when they encountered the suspect, who was brandishing a weapon, and shot him multiple times, Weiner said.
The suspect – reportedly identified as 37-year-old Charles Gollihue — was transported to Mount Carmel West Hospital in critical condition.