COLUMBUS – A violent weekend in Columbus continued to claim lives into Monday morning.
After two apparently unrelated shootings within 15 minutes of each other on Sunday night left a man and an unborn child dead and three people wounded, a 21-year-old man shot to death in a Southeast Side convenience store parking lot became the 91st homicide victim of the year in Columbus.
Antoine Blackshear was gunned down outside a store in the 6000 block of Channingway Boulevard just after 11:30 a.m. and died at Mount Carmel East Hospital at 12:13 p.m., Homicide Unit Sgt. Eric Pilya said.
Columbus City Council president Shannon Hardin described his feelings about the continuing violence as “profoundly mournful and frustrated.”
“The pain families have been feeling this summer is incomprehensible. The COVID-19 recession, widespread stress weighing on our mental health, lack of trust in law enforcement, and prevalence of guns in America all play a causal role in the current spike in shootings we see across our country,” he said in a statement.
A 43-year-old man was in stable condition after he was shot while sitting in a vehicle in the 4200 block of Kimberly Parkway just after 9:00 p.m. Monday, police said.
There was no information concerning suspects in either incident.