COLUMBUS (AP) — Police are searching for a suspect after an off-duty Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was shot and wounded in an apparent road rage incident on the Northeast Side.
SHOOTING INVESTIGATION:
10/25/19 officers called to E. North Broadway & Eisenhower Rd.
Victim-an off duty @OHFCSO deputy-driving home after getting his dog groomed.
Suspect allegedly got mad about victim's driving-fired 5 shots into victim’s personal vehicle-struck victim’s face pic.twitter.com/C9bdrgQcMv— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) October 26, 2019
Columbus police say Deputy Jim Church, 47, was shot in the right cheek around 11:00 p.m. Friday while driving home after having his dog groomed.
Police say the suspect became angry about how Church was driving, pulled up alongside Church’s personal vehicle near the intersection of E. North Broadway and Eisenhower Road and fired five shot into it.
Church was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital and is expected to recover.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Felony Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.