COLUMBUS – Police were working to identify the man whose body was found in a mattress on the Southwest Side Wednesday morning.
Officers responding to a call that someone had found a body inside a mattress near a Dumpster at in the 3600 block of Briggs Road at 8:53 a.m. found the body of a man who was pronounced dead at the scene, Sgt. Eric Pilya of the Homicide Unit said.
The victim was taken to the Franklin County Coroner’s Officer where it was determined that he had been shot multiple times.
This is the 23rd homicide of 2021 in Columbus.
There is no suspect information and Pilya says anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).