One person is dead and five other people were wounded in a mass shooting at a house party in the early hours of July 4 on Columbus’ Southeast Side.
A Columbus police dispatcher said that police received a report of a shooting at 2:40 a.m. in the 800 block of Wilson Avenue, just south of Livingston Avenue. The dispatcher said that a total of six people were shot after an altercation at a house party erupted into gunfire.
When officers arrived at the home, they found several people suffering from gunshot wounds. Columbus Division of Fire medics transported one of the victims to a local hospital, where they later died at 3:09 a.m., the dispatcher said. Other victims were either taken by Columbus Division of Fire medics to other hospitals or showed up at different hospitals. Their injuries were not life-threatening, the dispatcher said.
Other details regarding the shooting, including possible suspects, were not immediately available. Columbus police homicide detectives continue to investigate. Authorities will identify the victim who died at the hospital once they have notified the family.
Reporter Shahid Meighan can be reached at smeighan@dispatch.com, at ShahidMeighan on X, and at shahidthereporter.dispatch.com on Bluesky.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus Southeast Side mass shooting: 1 person killed, 5 others injured