Homicide suspect dies after jumping from YMCA window
A man who was a suspect in a Grove City homicide died Wednesday after jumping from a window at his residence at the Downtown Columbus YMCA.
Columbus police were helping Grove City police to serve an arrest warrant around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday for Jason Goundry, 48, listed in court documents as a resident at the YMCA, located at 40
W. Long St.,
Police arrived at the YMCA following an investigation that began around 1:20 p.m. Wednesday after 45-year-old Misty Davis, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was found unresponsive in a room at the Motel 6, located at 1900 Stringtown Road.
Grove City police said Davis was pronounced dead at the scene and appeared to have been killed by strangulation. An investigation determined Goundry had a relationship with Davis and had been staying in the room with Davis at the motel, police said.
Davis had reported to police in West Virginia that Goundry had threatened to kill her within the last month, police said.
Davis' vehicle also had been stolen from the hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Police had filed a warrant for Goundry's arrest for the theft of the vehicle and gone to Goundry's listed address, the YMCA, to try and locate him.
Police knocked on the door of the room Goundry was staying in, on the seventh floor of the shelter, and told Goundry to open the door and come out. Police said Goundry could be heard yelling at officers from behind the door.
Goundry then jumped out a window, landing on a third-floor roof below. Despite life-saving measures taken by police and paramedics called to the scene, he died shortly after 10 p.m. bbruner@dispatch.com @bethany_bruner