COLUMBUS – Police are still looking for a teenager and another person wanted on murder and robbery charges stemming from a deadly incident on the West Side in December.
Police charged Dreyton Johnson and William Armstead Jr., both 16, with murder and aggravated robbery on Feb. 17 in connection with an incident on Dec. 13, where 21-year-old Andrew Combs was shot to death in the 2700 block of W. Broad Street, Sgt. Michael Smith of the Columbus police Homicide Unit said.
Johnson has been arrested but and an unidentified suspect remains at-large.
Can you help us find these suspects? Andrew Combs was killed inside a W. Broad St. gas station on Dec. 13, 2022. The father-to-be was defending his friend who was the intended robbery victim. Detectives need help locating William Armstead, Jr. & identifying a third suspect. pic.twitter.com/TbFbyRqxaC
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) March 8, 2023
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
Defendant sentenced to 10 years in shooting death
A 57-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of a man in an exchange of gunfire at the defendant’s girlfriend’s home in 2020, according to the office of Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack.
Authorities say Johnson was at the home of his long-term girlfriend in the 1000 block of E. 17th Avenue on June 22, 2020 when he got into a with Jermar Watters, a close friend of the woman, and left the house, returning a while later with a gun and shot the 32-year-old Watters, who also had a gun and fired at Johnson.
Johnson was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter and three years for the use of a firearm.