COLUMBUS, Ohio – Authorities are searching for a suspect seen fleeing an early morning shooting in Ohio’s capital that sent 10 people to hospitals, one of them in critical condition.
Columbus police said officers dispatched to the Short North Arts District, north of downtown, shortly before 2:30 a.m. Sunday found six people with gunshot wounds. They later discovered that four other victims had also been taken to hospitals.
The eight adult and two juvenile victims were treated at three different hospitals in the city, police said. The victims were aged between 16 and 27. One adult was in critical condition and the other nine were stable. All were expected to survive, police said.
Sergeant Joe Albert told reporters that a suspect dressed in black was seen getting into a car as it sped away. Police chased the car, which at one point went the wrong way down a street, then turned onto Interstate 670 and fled west.
Anyone with information or video of the shooting was asked to contact the police criminal assault unit.
Mayor Andrew Ginther posted a statement on social media urging people to come forward with any information that could hold the perpetrators accountable.
“The gun violence that occurred this morning in the Short North is outrageous, it is unacceptable and it must stop,” he said.
Ginther also called for more action by state and federal governments to keep guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals. He called on parents “to take action – to know where their children and teenagers are and to impose a curfew in their homes”.
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