COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police had named no suspects by Friday morning in the shooting death of a man during an apparent break-in at a Far West Side apartment Thursday afternoon.
Officers responding to a reported shooting on Cliff Creek Drive shortly after 2:45 p.m. found Thomas Burns inside the apartment with a gunshot wound, investigators said. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead about four hours later.
Detectives say it appears that the suspect broke into the apartment through a window and fled the scene before police arrived.
Burns, 52, is the 42nd homicide victim of 2014 in Columbus
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Crime Stoppers at 614-645-TIPS.