COLUMBUS – No charges have been filed against a 21-year-old man police say was forced to shoot his 19-year-old brother during a violent argument in the older brother’s home on the East Side Monday.
The death of Mohamud Mohamed is the 106th homicide in Columbus in 2016, the highest number since 2008, when there were 109 homicides for the year (see graph below).
Police say Ali Mohamed and his brother, Mohamud, were arguing inside the elder Mohamed’s home on Caldwell Place in the city’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood at approximately 12:12 p.m. when the dispute escalated to the point where the younger brother threatened to harm Ali with a knife and Ali, who is a holder of a concealed-weapon permit, opened fire in self-defense, hitting his brother in the chest, homicide unit Sgt. Dave Sicilian said.
Officers and medics responding to the shooting found Mohamud Mohamed inside the apartment. He was taken to Grant Medical Center where he died just before 9:30 p.m., Sicilian said.