COLUMBUS, Ohio – The murders of two men in a car on the Southeast Side late Sunday night capped a holiday weekend that saw five people killed and three others injured in a half-dozen separate incidents.
Martaveious Arnold, 31, and Glen Simley, 28, were shot while sitting in a car in front of 930 Oakwood Avenue just before 10:20 p.m. Sunday, homicide detectives said.
The vehicle rolled to a stop in the intersection of Oakwood Avenue and Forest Street, where the vehicle came to rest against an embankment.
Arnold was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Grant Medical Center and Simley died just after 2:25 a.m. Monday, police said
Investigators have no known motive or suspect.
The double shooting capped a violent holiday weekend in Columbus:
At three minutes past midnight on July 4, Stephan Austin, 39, was found with a gunshot wound to the upper body on the front porch at 608 E. 4th Avenue by officers who performed CPR but were unable to save his life, homicide detectives said.
At 3:15 p.m. Friday, Devante Penn, 21, was found in the middle of the street at Wentworth Road and Windsor Avenue.
Mikal Kirkland, 25, was killed and Devin Skelton, 28, was injured in a shooting outside an after-hours club at the intersection of Kimball Place and East Fulton Street Saturday at approximately 4:13 a.m., police said. Kirkland was found in the street in front of 1323 E. Fulton Street with gunshot wounds to the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Skelton was hospitalized in critical condition.
Just before 4:42 p.m. on Friday, Ahmad Suliman, 20, was found inside the Corner Market, 2213 Courtright Road, with a gunshot wound to the left leg.
Suliman told investigators he believed he was shot for breaking up a large fight in the store parking lot, police said. Suliman was listed in stable condition.
Anyone with any information about these incidents are asked to contact Columbus Police Homicide Squad at 614-645-4730 or Crimestoppers at 614-645-TIPS.
A confrontation over graffiti ended in a gunfight in a Southeast Side apartment complex Saturday night. Residents chased Ravin Mays, 20, from the Cross Key Apartments at Chatterton and Noe-Bixby Roads after finding him vandalizing buildings with gang graffiti, Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said.
Mays came back with a firearm and wearing body armor and exchanged gunfire with Nils Williams, 45, who lived at the complex, Scott said. Justin Fairbanks, 18, was injured in the gunfight.
Williams and Mays were charged with felonious assault and a fourth man, Corey Lowe, was arrested on a charge of tampering with evidence for trying to dispose of Williams’s gun and Fairbanks has been charged for trying to dispose of Mays’s weapon, Scott said.