Forensics lead Columbus police to suspect in killing of mother of five
A ballistics match helped Columbus police identify a South Linden man they arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old mother of five in July 2021.
Columbus police also reported Thursday that a homicide investigation is underway after a young man shot in an unrelated incident late last month died of his injuries.
In the ballistics case, 28-year-old Terell Stokes was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in connection with the July 16, 2021, death of 31-yearold Superia Wilson.
Columbus police found Wilson shot inside a home on the 2000 block of Grasmere Avenue in South Linden after receiving a Shotspotter alert about gunfire in the area.
Witnesses told police that Wilson and her boyfriend were near the front porch area of their home when they noticed a car parked in the street. Three people suddenly got out of that car and began firing at the couple, striking Wilson, police said. The incident was captured on a security camera from a home across the street.
Paramedics rushed Wilson to Ohiohealth Grant Medical Center, but she
Court records show police collected shell casings from the shooting scene and later found there was a ballistics match between those shell casings and a gun Stokes had when he was arrested in September 2021 on unrelated charges. The ballistics match came from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ballistics technology.
died from her injuries.
Court records show police collected shell casings from the shooting scene and later found there was a ballistics match between those shell casings and a gun Stokes had when he was arrested in September 2021 on unrelated charges. The ballistics match came from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ballistics technology.
Court records indicate the firearm had been legally purchased by Stokes in December 2019. For reasons that are not clear in the court records, Columbus police had possession of the firearm in their property room and Stokes was able to pick the firearm up in June 2021, weeks before the fatal shooting took place.
Stokes is currently being held in the Franklin County jail on a $750,000 bond.
20-year-old man dies a week after being shot
A 20-year-old Far West Side man died Thursday morning from injuries sustained when he was shot more than a week earlier, Columbus police said.
Musa Aliyow died at 3:32 a.m. Thursday at an area hospital, according to police.
Responding officers found Aliyow had been shot around 9 p.m. on Jan. 29 on the 700 block of Countrybrook Drive East on the city’s Far West Side. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
Police are also investigating a shooting that occurred in the same block four days later.
Around 2:40 p.m. on Feb. 1, a shooting was reported on the 700 block of Countrybrook Drive East. Officers were not able to locate a victim at the scene, but later learned a 21-year-old man had been taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
Police have not said if the two shootings are related.
No further information, including on suspects, has been released by city homicide detectives. bbruner@dispatch.com @bethany_bruner