It’s officially summer in the 614. I pray that the higher temperatures won’t cause an increase in crime in the city. According to NBC41.com, one person is dead after a shooting early Sunday morning at the intersection of East 5th Avenue and North High Street. Columbus police were dispatched to the scene just before 3:30 […]
According to Fox 28, police are investigating after a dead body was found in east Columbus Sunday morning. A call was made at 7:41 a.m. about a lifeless body on Gault Street, per police. Officers went to the scene and a person was pronounced dead at 7:54 a.m., police say. Stay tuned for more information […]
Why must we keep seeing these types of stories in our community? Another person is dead in the North Columbus area and we need your help to find out what happened. According to Fox 28, Columbus Police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened in north Columbus Saturday morning. Police say just after 7:15 a.m., […]
Ntozake Shange, the poet, novelist and pioneering playwright responsible for the choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died on Saturday (October 27). The 70-year-old died in her sleep Saturday morning in an assisted living facility in Bowie, Md., where she lived. The news was confirmed on Shange’s social media […]
According to Fox 28, Governor John Kasich has ordered all public flags in Ohio to be lowered to half-staff in honor of the shooting victims in Pittsburgh. A shooter opened fire killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, authorities said. With the order, flags will be flown at half-staff through Saturday, November 3rd. Below is […]
Jesus, my thoughts and prayers are with this woman. I can’t imagine her pain. via The New York Times At first, the water splashing into the boat was comforting, a cool-down on a hot day. But then came a massive swell that rocked the boat, and Tia Coleman started getting nervous. Before she knew it, […]
According to The New York Times, the remains of dozens of people found at a construction site in Texas this year are most likely those of African-Americans who were forced to work on a plantation there around the turn of the 20th century, officials said this week. That finding, announced Monday, opens a window onto […]
A 15-year-old girl from Chicago was recently found dead in an abandoned West Side building. According to ABC Chicago, Sadaria Davis’ body was found in a vacant West Garfield Park apartment complex some two weeks after she went missing from her home on April 25. The apartment complex is only 6 blocks away from her house. […]
According to Fox 28, police said they had no choice but to shoot a man after he made a “threatening gesture” with a handgun in the direction of a SWAT team. The man was pronounced dead shortly after the police shooting. The fatal gunfire came at 12:10am Sunday, more than an hour after Columbus Police […]
According to Fox 28, Police confirmed Saturday morning that one person was killed and another was injured, in an early-morning shooting on South Warren Avenue. The crime scene at the corner of South Warren and Olive Street stretched for three blocks during the police investigation, which lasted for several hours. Police dispatchers confirmed the gunfire was […]
