COLUMBUS – Two 13-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting at Easton Town Center Sunday night that prompted a lockdown of the mall and an evacuation amid concerns that an active shooter was still on the scene.
Officers responding to the reports of gunshots at approximately 6:14 p.m. found the victim and performed first aid until Columbus Division of Fire paramedics arrived and transported the victim, whose name was not released, to a local hospital where he died, Sgt. Edward Powell III of the Columbus police Homicide Unit said.
One of the two teens who were arrested was charged with murder and the other with obstructing justice, Powell said.
The incident was the third fatal shooting in three days, including one at a Dairy Queen that left a 19-year-old man dead on Saturday.
Police are looking for two suspects who shot and killed a 43-year-old man inside a North Side auto parts store during an armed robbery on Thursday, according to the Columbus Division of Police Facebook page.
Detectives say Alejandro Fajardo-Torres was trying to intercede in the holdup when he was shot in the Auto Zone on Sancus Boulevard.
Police believe the two suspects have also been involved in multiple other robberies at auto parts stores in the city.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or CrimeStoppers at 614-645-TIPS.
Police in Ohio fatally shot a pregnant shoplifting suspect
Police officials in Blendon Township say officers shot and killed a pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting after she accelerated her car toward an officer trying to stop her.
Twenty-one-year-old Ta’Kiya Young died Thursday.
Police Chief John Belford says the officers were at a supermarket on an unrelated matter when an employee told them people were trying to flee with stolen items.
One officer went to the driver’s side of Young’s car and told her to stop, while the other moved in front of the vehicle.
Belford says Young accelerated forward and the officer in front of the vehicle fired one shot through the front windshield, killing her.