COLUMBUS – Police say a man died Sunday morning after being shot by a masked suspect at a Southeast Side gas station.
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION:1/12/20@6:23am-officers dispatched to the scene of shots fired picked up by @shotspotter at Marathon@830 Parsons Ave.
27yo Kenneth L. Jackson succumbed to gunshot wounds & died.
City’s 7th homicide in 2020.Info-CPD:614-645-4730 bwildman@columbuspolice.org pic.twitter.com/JErM4H6uMC
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) January 13, 2020
Columbus police say officers found Kenneth Jackson after they responded around 6:30 a.m. to gunfire in the area of a Marathon gas station at 830 Parsons Avenue, Sgt. Eric Pilya of the Homicide Unit said.
Jackson, 27, was taken to Grant Medical Center where he died a short time later.
Police were searching for a person wearing a black mask and black clothing who fled south and east from the scene, Pilya said.
They didn’t immediately provide additional details on their investigation.
The death was the city’s seventh homicide this year.
An 18-year-old man was shot to death in the parking lot of a Southeast Side apartment complex Saturday afternoon.
Officers found Willie Felder Jr. in the 3600 block of Refugee Road, in the Commons at Water’s Edge, just after 5:30 p.m., suffering from a gunshot wound and police say he died about four hours later at a hospital.
Anyone with any information about 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).