COLUMBUS – Five members of the Columbus Division of Police have been cleared of wrongdoing in a trio of officer-involved shootings dating back to 2015, according to a division spokesman.
The division’s Firearms/Police-Involved Death Review Board found the four officers and one sergeant operated within the division‘s Use of Firearms Policy.
April 1, 2015: Roy Harvison, 24, a suspect in a double murder, was shot by three officers in a parking lot at Parsons Avenue and E. Kossuth Street.
Two Columbus Police sergeants were driving in the area when they heard gunshots and thought they saw one man shooting another man in the parking lot, according to a division release. Both sergeants and back-up officers confronted the man at which point officers Brian Newsome and Samuel Peck and Sgt. Trent Taylor fired at Harvison, who was listed in stable condition at Grant Medical Center.
Harvison’s 29-year-old estranged wife, Jenea, and her brother, Donell McDonald, were pronounced dead at the scene by Columbus Fire medics.
Feb. 10, 2017: Ofc. Kimberly Wilkinson fired a shot at Keith Marshall, who has fled the scene of a shooting that left his girlfriend dead and led police on a pursuit with two young children in his pickup, Sgt. Dean Worthington said. Wilkinson’s shot missed and Marshall shot himself but survived.
April 6, 2017: Ofc. Nathan Komisarek shot a man who pulled a BB gun from a bag as he stepped out of an ambulance to go into an emergency room.
Christopher Wade, 39, was being transported from Garden Terrace Road to Mount Carmel St. Ann’s hospital on Cleveland Ave. When he stepped out of the ambulance and walked to the entrance of the emergency room, he reached down into a bag he was carrying and pulled out a gun.
Witnesses say Komisarek fired at Wade after he refused to drop the gun and Wade died later.