Man found fatally shot at South Linden residence

Columbus Police homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found shot to death near the steps of a residence in South Linden on Thursday morning.

“I think I see a possible dead body next to my house,” a man told a police dispatcher Thursday morning after he went to his car and saw the body in an adjacent yard. “I called his name ... I think he’s gone.”

The dead man is in his 30s, but police were not releasing his identity Thursday night because they were still trying to notify relatives.

Officers were called out at 8:39 a.m. to the 1500 block of East 26th Avenue, where they found the unresponsive man with a least one gunshot wound.

Paramedics pronounced the man dead at 8:46 a.m., said Sgt. Dean Worthington, a spokesman for Columbus Division of Police.

Officers were called out to the same area at 10:27 p.m. Wednesday after neighbors called dispatchers after hearing shots fired.

“They shot, like six shots. There was a pause, and then there was another six shots,” a woman told a police dispatcher on a 911 call. Another neighbor called reporting about 15 gunshots.

“We responded out there but did not see anything,” Worthington told The Dispatch.

It’s uncertain whether the calls are related, but “one would imagine they are related,” he said.

Anyone with information about the man’s death is asked to call the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or remain anonymous by calling Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS(8477).