Police identify man killed in Sunday night shooting

Police released the name of a man killed in a Northeast Side shooting Sunday night, the latest of three homicides reported in Columbus over the weekend.

The body of Martise L. Maddox-Suddith, 24, was found in a parking lot just east of the Grand Champion North Bar in the 2400 block of East Dublin Granville Road on the city’s Northeast Side.

Officers were called to the scene about 8:49 p.m. Fire medics arrived a few minutes later and pronounced MaddoxSmith dead at 8:56 p.m.

Detectives said there were no known suspects or a motive in the slaying.

Maddox-Suddith was the 118th homicide victim in Columbus in 2017. That is the second-highest homicide total in the city's history, behind 139 killings in 1991.

Shortly before noon on Sunday, police responding to reports of shots fired on South Princeton Avenue south of West Broad Street in Franklinton found a man down in an alley behind his home with a gunshot wound.

William E. Golden, 60, was taken to Mount Carmel West hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1 p.m.

On Friday night, a gunfight left two men dead and a third in critical condition outside a Northeast Side home.

Police said James Bernard Willis III, 30, arrived at a home in the 2400 block of Dawnlight Avenue to meet with Calvin Edward Carmichael, 26, around 11:30 p.m. Witnesses said they heard arguing coming from the front porch of the house, then seconds later heard several gunshots.

Carmichael, taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center by fire medics, was pronounced dead at 1:55 a.m. Saturday. Willis tried to drive himself to the hospital but made it only as far as Joyce Avenue and Hudson Street, police said. Fire medics took him to Grant, where he died shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday. A third man, Anthony Dwayne Sparkes, 28, was in critical condition late Saturday at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center from Friday's shooting. It was unclear how Sparks was involved.

Anyone with information regarding any of these homicides is asked to contact the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477.