COLUMBUS – Columbus police are treating the deaths of an elderly couple in North Linden as the 51st and 52nd homicides of 2019.
Officers responding to a report that a woman was dead inside a home in the 1100 block of Pauline Avenue, and that a man might be dead inside the home as well, found Donald and Sharon Fadley unresponsive at the scene at 2:55 p.m. Thursday, Homicide Unit detectives said.
Sharon Fadley, 70, was pronounced dead and Columbus paramedics took Donald Fadley, 72, to a hospital where he died about seven hours later, investigators said.
This incident is still under investigation.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).