REYNOLDSBURG — A drive-by shooting at memorial vigil for an earlier homicide victim killed a passing motorist and wounded five people in the crowd, including a 12-year-old child.
A small group had gathered at 7:00 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of a strip mall in the 5000 block of Chatterton Road in Truro Township to mark one year since another person was killed at the same location, Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said.
At about 7:30 p.m., police said, a dark-colored SUV, possibly a Dodge Durango (above and right), drove past and someone opened fire, hitting five people.
Police say all had non-life-threatening injuries, but Latoya Carpenter, 39, was driving east on Chatterton Road passing the scene as the shooting started, Baldwin said.
She was struck in the head by gunfire and the vehicle she was driving crashed into a parked car in the parking lot of an adjacent apartment complex.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.