One dead, one injured following shooting at a South Side apartment building Sunday
One person was found dead in a crashed vehicle and another was injured Sunday following a shooting on the South Side.
Columbus police were called to an apartment building on the 200 block of Buffalo Court just before 5 p.m. on a report of a shooting.
Officers found a gray sedan crashed into the tree line with the driver suffering from a gunshot wound. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after officers arrived.
They found another adult in a nearby apartment suffering from a gunshot wound and transported them to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
According to police, the driver was seated in the sedan in a nearby parking lot when a man approached the vehicle. The two had a brief conversation, during which another person, the one who would be critically injured, approached them. They exchanged gunfire and the driver of the sedan crashed into the trees, police said.
Police have not released the names of the people involved.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Detective Johnson at (614) 645-4488 or AJohnson@ColumbusPolice.org or to call Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus police investigating fatal shooting on the South Side
