Man fatally shot near OSU campus
One person is dead after a shooting early Tuesday morning in a parking lot area behind an apartment house near the Ohio State University campus and Greek fraternities.
Columbus police were called at 3:38 a.m. on a report of a shooting in the rear of an apartment house in the 200 block of East 15th Avenue near North 4th Street. The area is about four blocks from Ohio State's campus and just east of some Greek fraternities on that avenue.
The victim, identified as 33-year-old Dell Fields Jr., of Hamilton County in southwest Ohio, was taken in critical condition to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead at 5:36 a.m.
Fields' death is the 61st homicide committed in Columbus in 2021.
Ohio State issued a campus safety notice about the shooting on Tuesday morning. Fields was not affiliated with the university, campus police said.
No additional information about that shooting was immediately available.
Homicide detectives have released the names of two people shot, one fatally, on April 13 at Eagle Fuels convenience store on the 3800 block of East Livingston Avenue.
Abdou Kane, 21, was transported to Ohiohealth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:29 a.m., police said. He was the 57th homicide committed in Columbus this year.
Ozian Gemal, a 24-year-old female, and Asenake Kinde, a 30-year-old male, were occupants of a second vehicle that crashed at East Livingston Avenue and Beechwood Road after the car they were in was struck by a bullet. Gemal was transported in stable condition to an area hospital with injuries she received in the crash. Kinde was not injured, police said.
Meanwhile, two other homicide victims who died after being shot in vehicles Sunday morning have still not been identified by homicide detectives.
Columbus police homicide detectives say patrol officers responding at 1:48 a.m. to a report of a shooting found a male inside a vehicle in an alley on the south side of 25th Avenue near Medina Avenue suffering from a gunshot wound.
Columbus Fire medics transported the male to Ohiohealth Grant Medical Center, where he died at 2:19 a.m. His death is the 59th homicide of 2021.
More than six hours later, police were called about a shooting around 8:10 a.m. near the intersection of Sullivant Avenue and South Richardson Avenue on the Hilltop.
Police said a 59-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a vehicle in the 400 block of South Richardson between Sullivant Avenue and the entrance to an alley that runs behind Sullivant Avenue.
Columbus Fire medics transported the victim to Ohiohealth Grant Medical Center, where he died at 8:47 a.m. He was the victim of the 60th homicide committed in the city this year.
Anyone with information about any of these incidents is asked to call Columbus police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).
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