COLUMBUS – Columbus police are looking for two men in connection with the city’s 101st homicide of 2020.
Meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with the 100th murder of the year, the stabbing death of a 20-year-old woman over the Labor Day weekend.
Murder charges were filed Wednesday night against Adonis Walker (above left) and Tylan Sims (right), both 22, in the shooting death of Dezujwuan Pyfrom in the parking lot of a Northeast Side store Monday afternoon, Sgt. James Marable of the Homicide Unit said.
Pyfrom, 20, was gunned down just before 3:00 p.m. while parking his truck on the lot of the Sunbury Market, 1485 Sunbury Road.
Police say the suspects were identified shortly after a description of the incident was posted on social media.
Anyone with information regarding the incident or the whereabouts of the suspects is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).
Meanwhile, police say the suspect in the city’s 100th homicide was arrested by Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers in Warren County a few hours the crime.
David Jones, 52, is facing a murder charge in the stabbing death of Keaira Ayers, 20, who was found stabbed to death in an alley in the 1600 block of Hudson Street Monday morning, police said.