COLUMBUS – A woman gunned down on a South Side street Thursday afternoon became the 32nd homicide of 2021 in Columbus.
Columbus police officers called to the intersection of S. 8th Street and Stanaford Place on a report of a shooting at 5:24 p.m. found 26-year-old Kimberly Marcum suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit said.
She died about three hours later at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, he said.
Detectives determined that Marcum was shot by an unidentified man who fired several shots before fleeing the scene on foot.
Anyone with information regarding this incident, is asked to call Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
The fatal shooting was one of three incidents in Columbus Thursday and early Friday. Two men were shot in separate incidents near the intersection of James Road and Livingston Avenue just after 11:30 p.m. Thursday and in the parking lot of a business in the 2700 block of Cleveland Avenue at 1:12 a.m. Friday.
Meanwhile, a Newark teen and a 20-year-old man are in jail in Licking County in connection with the shooting of a man from Orlando, Fla., in Newark on Monday.
Eric Dell Jr., 16, was arrested in Newark on Wednesday and Frazier was arrested in Columbus Thursday in connection with the shooting of Alexander Nkuitabong, 21, at a home on Pleasant Street, Newark Police Department spokesman Sgt. Clint Eskins said.
Dell was turned over to Licking County Juvenile Court and Frazier is in the Licking County Jail. Eskins says both are facing robbery, assault and weapons charges.