By Beth Burger, The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS – Four people were shot in a Southwest Side house Tuesday night, including a little girl who died just days after celebrating her second birthday. Neighbors suspected drugs were being sold there.
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“That poor little girl. She had such a short life and there’s no telling what she saw in that house,” said one neighbor, who wouldn’t give her name for fear of retaliation.
Neighbors said they never heard the gunshots ring out Tuesday night. They heard the sirens wailing down the 4600 block of Parkwick Drive just after 6 p.m.
A search warrant executed at the same residence in May 2014 shows that police seized more than $6,000 in cash, shotguns, handguns and an assortment of drugs including marijuana, pills, heroin and crack cocaine. Records show 25-year-old Jessica Stanford bought the home in 2013.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Amiyah Bice, was killed.
The fourth person shot, Norman Robert Burke, 51, managed to make it just east of the scene before collapsing in front of other homes. A neighbor who called 911 said he was shot in the back. Columbus police today charged him with one count of murder and two counts of felonious assault after police say he shot the other three after a disagreement with Bice.
A second suspect managed to get away and police said they are working to learn his identity. On Wednesday evening, no one else had been charged in the shootings.