COLUMBUS – The homicide toll in Columbus rose to 111 over the weekend after the deaths of two women and the discovery of a man’s body over the weekend.
The most recent homicide was a 45-year-old City of Columbus employee who died in her Northeast Side home early Sunday morning.
Officers found Tearicka Cradle inside her home on Jane Avenue just before 2:25 a.m. when they went to investigate a report of a shooting, Sgt. Edward Powell of the Homicide Unit said. She died at the scene.
Witnesses told police the unknown suspect drove away in a dark-colored SUV, Powell said.
Officers were called to the 4600 block of Sawmill Road just before 8:00 Saturday night after someone reported a dead body in the area found the body of a man whose name is being withheld while authorities notify his family, Sgt. James Marable said. His death is being treated as suspicious and is being investigated as a homicide, Marable said.
A 31-year-old woman was killed when police say she was shot by three men in a black car while near her South Linden home Friday night.
Marable says Supreia Wilson and James Wilson, her 41-year-old boyfriend, were near the front porch of their home in the 2000 block of Grasmere Avenue at about 7:48 p.m. when they saw a black car parked on the street nearby.
Three men got out of the car and began shooting at the Wilsons, who fled inside their home, Marable said. The men got back in the car and drove away to the south.
Officers responding to the report of a shooting found Supreia Wilson suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. She was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, where she died at 8:33 p.m.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477).
Police: Woman facing charge after gunshot injures boy, 5
Columbus police say a woman will face a child endangerment charge in a shooting that injured her 5-year-old son.
The boy was brought into Nationwide Children’s Hospital shortly after 5:00 p.m. Friday with a gunshot wound that went through both knees, Sgt. Doug Jones of the Felony Assault Unit said.
Detectives determined that the child had been lying on a couch inside a home at 1075 Seymour Avenue next to his mother, who they allege was intoxicated and had been pointing a handgun at several other adults, making threats.
Police say that as Trenise Turner, 30, was putting the handgun back in her purse, she fired a shot, striking her son in the legs.
Police said family members took the boy to the hospital, where Jones says he was in stable condition awaiting corrective surgery scheduled for Saturday morning.
Turner was taken to the Franklin County Jail.
Nine other people – five men and a woman – were shot in four separate incidents in Columbus over the weekend. That includes a triple shooting following an argument in the Short North early Sunday morning.
Pregnant woman shot to death; hospital attempts to save baby
Authorities say a pregnant woman in Cincinnati died after being shot, and her baby was delivered but is in critical condition.
Cincinnati police say officers responded to a report of a shooting shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Police say 31-year-old Michelle McDonald was transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Police say medical center staff were able to deliver the baby, who is currently in critical condition.
Police say a 31-year-old man is facing charges in her death.
The investigation by the department’s homicide unit continues.