COLUMBUS, Ohio – A man is behind bars after holding SWAT officers at bay with a child as hostage inside an apartment on the Northeast Side Saturday night.
Tyson Reliford, 24, allegedly assaulted a three-year-old girl he was babysitting for the girl’s mother, who was at work. The child suffered “serious harm,” police said, and was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital where she was listed in critical condition.
When investigators went to an apartment on Forest Elm Lane to confront Reliford at about 6:00 p.m., but he holed up with another child before being arrested.
The second child was unharmed.
Reliford has been charged with felonious assault.