Ohio State-area rape suspect is arrested
Ohio State University police captured a suspect in the June 23 rape of a student, the campus police force said Friday morning.
David W. Canter, 38, was arrested Friday and is charged with rape and kidnapping in an incident that caused a campus alert.
A female student was walking along Neil Avenue near the 9th Street parking garage in the early morning of June 23 when a man approached her from behind, held a gun to her head and threatened to hurt her if she didn’t come with him, according to an affidavit filed in Franklin County Municipal Court.
The man led the student off campus, where he held a knife to her throat, struck her in the side of the head, removed her underwear and raped her, the affidavit said.
The man gave the victim her purse back after he assaulted her, but kept her underwear, the affidavit said.
The victim went to the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, where she spoke to campus police.
Investigators identified Canter as her attacker using his DNA, the affidavit said.
A jury found Canter guilty of kidnapping and abduction in 2000 and he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge in 2013, court records show. He was required to register as a sex offender following the first conviction, and was charged several times with failing to register or notify authorities of an address change. Canter
A Columbus police officer was shot in the foot while conducting a narcotics raid on a home Friday in the South Linden neighborhood.
The officer was in stable condition with a non-life-threatening injury to his foot Friday afternoon at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, said Sgt. Dean Worthington, a police spokesman. He said the name of the injured officer would likely be released Saturday.
The raid was conducted at 12:55 p.m. on the 1500 block of Cordell Avenue, a Columbus police dispatcher said.
Columbus narcotics bureau officers were executing a search warrant for Whitehall police, Worthington said, when someone inside the home fired multiple shots. The officers did not return fire, but detained five people in the home for questioning at police headquarters Downtown. No one had been charged in the incident as of Friday afternoon; Worthington said names of suspects would be released when charges are filed.
Officers from Columbus’ Critical Incident Response Team are investigating the shooting, Worthington said. That unit investigates all officer-involved shootings, he said.