COLUMBUS – Police say a man wanted in the shooting death of his estranged wife is behind bars.
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Lenzell Quamir Weston (below), was charged with murder after he allegedly walked into Monique Weston’s home on Northcliff Drive on the morning of July 21, shot the 35-year-old woman several times, and escaped, Homicide Unit Sgt. Dave Sicilian said.
Lenzell Weston, 36, was arrested without incident at approximately 8:04 a.m. Tuesday by patrol officers on Sunbury Road, just south of Innis Road, Sicilian said.
A patrol officer apprehended Weston as he was walking out of the woods, said Sgt. David Sicilian, a first-shift homicide squad supervisor.
“We figured he was hiding out around here,” Sicilian said, adding that police kept their eyes on Weston’s known associates to find him.
Detectives, SWAT personnel and patrol officers spent the past five days searching the area for Weston.
“He was a very dangerous man,” Sicilian said. “The most dangerous I’ve caught.”
Weston is charged with fatally shooting Monique Weston on Thursday. In the past three years, he had been charged with domestic violence against her six times.
The most recent charge came the night before Mrs. Weston, 34, died. She had called Columbus police to report that Weston, 36, had struck her so hard that she had fallen into a van, hitting her head, according to court documents. He had disappeared by the time she talked with police, so he was not arrested.
The next day, Mrs. Weston was shot at her home on Northcliff Drive on the Northeast Side. Her 17-year-old daughter made a frantic call to 911 around 10:30 a.m., saying that she and her three younger siblings were hiding in a bedroom because they’d heard gunshots and her mother screaming. She told the dispatcher that she thought her stepfather had shot her mother.