COLUMBUS – Police are looking for a suspect in a fatal shooting Monday morning at a Franklinton apartment complex.
UPDATE 9/10/19 5:48 a.m.: 34-year-old Alexis Leon Byrd was arrested Sept. 5 in connection with this incident.
HOMICIDE ARREST: 34-year-old Alexis Leon Byrd was arrested Sept. 5, 2019 at 3:15am at a home on E. 23rd Ave.
He was wanted for the shooting death of 34-year-old Sebastian Watkins on June 3, 2019 at 834 Greenfield Dr. pic.twitter.com/8asf8NbpTA
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) September 9, 2019
Officers found Sebastian Watkins suffering from gunshot wounds on a sidewalk outside the Southpark Apartments on Greenfield Drive at 10:33 a.m., Sgt. Eric Pilya said.
Watkins, 34, was taken to Grand Medical Center, where Pilya says he underwent extensive lifesaving procedures but was pronounced dead at 2:42 p.m.
The suspect is described as a black male, in his 20’s, wearing sweatpants, a tank top and dreadlocks.
This is the 48th Homicide in Columbus, Ohio, in Calendar Year 2019.
Anyone with any information in regards to this incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).