COLUMBUS – Police have not released the name of a man shot to death inside the garage of a Northwest Side townhome Monday night.
UPDATE 1/31/19 11:21 a.m.: The victim in this homicide has been identified as Yong Bin Zhang, 27.
After the Columbus Division of Police dispatch center got a call from a person who reported hearing a gunshot and seeing two individuals standing near a garage on Alder Court, in the District at Linworth complex, at approximately 11:21 p.m., officers found the victim in the garage suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, said Sgt. Terry McConnell of the Homicide Unit.
The victim was taken to Riverside Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
This is the eighth homicide of 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).