COLUMBUS, Ohio — One person was killed and two others were injured Friday night, Oct. 30, in a shooting on Columbus’s Hilltop that detectives believe stemmed from an attempted robbery, according to the Columbus Division of Police as reported by The Columbus Dispatch.
Officers responded around 7:45 p.m. to a report of a shooting in the 1000 block of Hardesty Place West, according to Columbus police reporting by The Columbus Dispatch. When officers arrived, they found a victim suffering from a gunshot wound who told them about a second victim in the basement of a house, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Medical teams treated the first victim at the scene and pronounced the second victim dead there at 7:56 p.m., according to police as reported by The Columbus Dispatch. The first victim was transported to a hospital in critical condition, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
A third victim took themself to a hospital and was released after receiving treatment, according to The Columbus Dispatch. WBNS-10TV also reported, citing the Columbus Division of Police, that one person was found dead at the scene and two other victims were taken to nearby hospitals, with one driving there on their own — matching the account police gave The Columbus Dispatch.
Columbus police said detectives believe the shooting stemmed from an attempted robbery, according to The Columbus Dispatch. No suspects have been identified, and police have not released the names of any of the three victims, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
What we know — and what we’re still waiting on
What we know: the shooting was reported around 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the 1000 block of Hardesty Place West; three people were shot; one died at the scene, one was hospitalized in critical condition, and one was treated and released; and detectives are investigating the case as an attempted robbery, according to Columbus police as reported by The Columbus Dispatch and confirmed in WBNS-10TV’s reporting from the division.
What we’re still waiting on: the victims’ names, which police had not released as of The Columbus Dispatch’s report; whether the person hospitalized in critical condition survives; any description of a suspect or suspects; and how the three victims and the house in the 1000 block of Hardesty Place West are connected. None of those details has been released by police, and NewsForce247 is not speculating on them.
Friday’s shooting is the second fatal shooting in the Hilltop in less than a month. On Oct. 6, Cedric Cole, 53, died after a shooting on the 2100 block of Clarendon Lane, just south of Sullivant Avenue, according to a Columbus police news release reported by The Columbus Dispatch. Three teenagers — a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds — have been charged with murder in connection with Cole’s death, and police said a preliminary investigation found an argument between the teenagers and Cole led to that shooting, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Police have not said the two cases are connected, and they involve different blocks and different circumstances as described by investigators.
The Hardesty Place shooting also comes as Columbus continues to act against locations tied to repeated violence, including the court-ordered shutdown this week of a Columbus nightlife bar after shootings, covered in our report on the Aurora bar closure. In a separate law-enforcement story this week, a Franklin County deputy was suspended over misuse of Flock camera data.
For Hilltop residents, the immediate impact is a homicide investigation on a residential street on Halloween weekend, with a neighbor hospitalized in critical condition and no suspect publicly identified. Anyone who was in the area of Hardesty Place West on Friday evening, or who has doorbell or security video from the block, could hold information detectives need.
What happens next: Columbus police homicide detectives continue the investigation, and the victims’ identities are typically released by police or the Franklin County Coroner’s Office once families are notified. Anyone with information about the shooting can contact the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or provide an anonymous tip to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477, numbers The Columbus Dispatch published for Hilltop homicide cases. NewsForce247 will update this story as police release names or announce an arrest.
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