Shooting in the Short North sends 3 to hospital after High Street fight

Three people, including a 17-yearold, suffered injuries early Sunday morning during a shooting in the Short North, Columbus police said.

At 12:51 a.m. Sunday, two groups of males began arguing at the 900 block of North High Street, police said in a news release. Several of the participants pulled handguns and began shooting at each other.

After the shooting, the people involved fled in different directions, police said. Some tossed their guns as they ran. First responding officers used a tourniquet on one of the victims, saving his life.

The victims, whom police declined to identify, were males ages 17, 19 and 21, police said. The victims were all taken to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in conditions ranging from stable to critical, dispatchers said. Some of the victims were taken immediately into the operating room and were unable to be interviewed.

Some of the victims and a few close witnesses whom police interviewed claimed they couldn’t remember or didn’t see what happened, police said.

It is not clear whether police have identified a suspect. Columbus police did not immediately respond to requests for an interview.

High Street shootings not an uncommon occurrence

In February, a bullet from an apparent drive-by shooting hit a patron and bystander at a High Street tavern in Old

North, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

In 2021, there were several shootings on High Street, including a shooting that also occurred on the 900 block of North High Street in Short North. Around 4 a.m. July 18, three people suffered injuries after a fight outside Seesaw Kitchen and Bar, 906 N. High St. Police said two of the victims were fighting and exchanged gunfire, with the third victim caught in the crossfire.

The next weekend, July 24, a police lieutenant working special duty in the area reported shots fired near Skully’s Music-diner, 1151 N. High St. More than two dozen bullet casings from an AK-47 or similar type of rifle were found at the scene. Four were injured in the shooting.

Cbehrens@dispatch.com