COLUMBUS – The year was less than seven hours old when Columbus police found themselves investigating 2019’s first murder.
Ahmed Nur Osman, 36, was found shot inside a home on Leigh Run Court, in the Wesliegh Run Townhomes complex on the Southwest Side, at approximately 6:21 a.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Terry McConnell of the Homicide Unit said.
He was pronounced dead at Doctor’s Hospital later.
Osman’s death came hours after the final homicide of 2018, a victim of an incident on Harrisburg Pike where two people were stabbed, one of them fatally, according to police.
The 103 homicides reported in 2018 was a 28 percent decline from the record 143 in 2017, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Anyone with any information in regards to these incidents is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).