Man dead in nightclub shooting

COLUMBUS – Police are looking for in an early-morning shooting that left a man dead outside a Far East Side nightclub.

Bryan Hawk, 22, was found lying on the ground near the parking lot of Xclusive Venue Nightclub, 1921 Channingway Center Drive, at approximately 2:12 a.m. Saturday by Columbus police officers responding to a report of gunshots being fired outside the club, detectives said.

Hawk was suffering from several gunshot wounds and died later at Grant Medical Center, police said.

Investigators had no known suspects or motives for the shooting Saturday.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614)461-TIPS.

This is the 27th Homicide in Columbus in 2016.