One person is dead after a shooting early Saturday morning on Columbus’ Northwest Side.
Police responded at 12:22 a.m. to a report of a shooting on the 6000 block of O’Sweeney Lane, where officers found 18-year-old Kiara Nelson suffering from a gunshot wound.
Medics took Nelson to Riverside Methodist Hospital, where she died at 1:51 a.m. Nelson was in an apartment when a dispute began between two other people, police said. She tried to intervene and was fatally injured when a firearm was fired.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact Detective Earl Westfall at 614-645-4221 or EWestfall@ColumbusPolice.org or submit an anonymous tip to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477.
bagallion@dispatch.com
This article originally appeared in The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus O’Sweeney Lane shooting: Woman, 18, killed while attempting to intervene
