4 injured, 2 critically, in Saturday shootings
Four people were injured, two critically, in separate shootings Saturday.
The first took place in the parking lot of a bar in a Linden neighborhood early Saturday morning that left a 30-year-old woman fighting for her life.
Columbus police say Shantia Peterson was sitting in a chair in the parking lot of the Sunrise Bar, 967 E. Hudson St., when someone shot her in the neck about 12:45 a.m. She was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center where she was in “extremely critical condition” late Saturday, police said.
Another woman, Temiko Washington, 31, was getting out of a vehicle in the parking lot when she also was shot in the neck. She is expected to survive, authorities said.
Police said they have no suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Division’s assault squad at 614-645-4075 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
The other shooting occurred in the middle of an intersection in the Milo-Grogan neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
The initial call came in at 12:35 p.m. of a shootout at St. Clair and E. 5th avenues. A police dispatcher said one person was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in critical condition. Another person was taken to University Hospital East but no condition was reported. Their names weren’t available late Saturday.
Police were searching for a man in a heavily damaged car, believed to be a Toyota Camry, that fled the scene. At the roped-off intersection, a U-Haul truck with both doors wide open sat idle in the roadway, as did a heavily damaged Ford vehicle.
Two men who wouldn’t give their names said they heard at least a dozen gunshots.
The shooting happened just steps from the Express Market, at the corner of 5th and Peters avenue. A shooting in that store’s parking lot in 2016 killed 7-year-old De’Ontae Fisher, who was a backseat passenger in a car that was parked there at the time. Marctarious Grace was charged with the child’s murder. Grace is serving life in prison with no chance of parole.