2023 Short North shooting | |
---|---|
![]() Police responding to the shooting. A victim of the attack can be seen laying on the ground. | |
Location | The Short North, Columbus, Ohio |
Date | June 23, 2023 2:30 AM (EDT) |
Target | Civilians |
Attack type | Mass shooting, Drive-by shooting |
Weapons | Pistol, another unidentified firearm |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 10 |
No. of participants | 2 |
Charges |
|
On June 23, 2023, ten people were shot and injured in a mass shooting in the Short North district of Columbus, Ohio. The shooting was the third in a series of attacks that had occurred across the city in a single weekend, all of which ended with several victims. The shooting resulted in the implementation of "Operation Moonlight", an effort by the city of Columbus to combat mass shootings in downtown public areas.
At 2:30 AM EDT, a 20-year old man and another unidentified person rode on a motorcycle up North High Street, in the Short North Business District. The driver stopped at an intersection in the center of the district and began to fire upon pedestrians and other bystanders with a pistol, and 8 people were injured as a result of the gunfire. Several officers with the Columbus Division of Police, who were breaking up a fight between multiple people, ran to the site of the shooting and fired upon the shooter, and 1 other person was injured as a result. One of the suspects was shot, but another stepped off the motorcycle, entered a white Honda Civic and drove off. [1] [2]
As the suspect fled the scene in the Honda Civic with another man, they engaged in a police chase and were chased through Interstate 670, where the vehicle reached a maximum speed of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h). The car eventually was lost by police, and the occupants drove off to an unknown location. [3] [4]
On June 27, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a notice that offered a reward of $10,000 (2023 USD) for information that led to the arrest of the motorcycle driver. [5] A short time after the shooting, the man who drove the Honda Civic turned himself in, and was identified as DeAngelo Fuller. He was charged with obstructing official business with the risk of physical harm, because he is believed to have never fired a weapon into the crowd. [6] [7]
All of the victims of the shooting were males between 16 and 27 years old. Nine people were injured to varying, non-severe degrees, and one person was marked as being in critical condition. [8] [9]
A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is an armed confrontation entailing firearms between armed parties using guns, always entailing intense disagreement(s) between the fighting parties. The term can be used to describe any such fight, though it is typically used in a non-military context or to describe combat situations primarily using firearms.
The Almighty Saints is a street gang founded in the early 1960s by Polish youth at Davis Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, but later was largely made up of Hispanics due to the change in the community's ethnic makeup.
The San Jose Police Department (SJPD) is the police agency for San Jose, California. The San Jose Police Department is led by Chief of Police Paul Joseph.
The Cumbria shootings were a shooting spree that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven others in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre and the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, it is one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history. The shootings ended when Bird killed himself in a wooded area after abandoning his car in the village of Boot.
On November 28, 2016, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack occurred at 9:52 a.m. EST at Ohio State University's Watts Hall in Columbus, Ohio. The attacker, Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was shot and killed by the first responding OSU police officer, and 13 people were hospitalized for injuries.
On August 31, 2019, a spree shooting occurred in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa, involving a gunman shooting multiple people from a vehicle. Eight people were killed, including the perpetrator, and twenty-five people were injured, including three police officers. It was the third major mass shooting to take place in the United States in August 2019, following the El Paso Walmart shooting and the Dayton shooting.
The Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club are a multiracial one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club. Although they are active nationwide in the United States, they are primarily based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With chapters in at least 25 states across the US, the group claims to be the country's largest mixed-race outlaw motorcycle club.
On April 3, 2022, at approximately 2:00 a.m., a mass shooting occurred in downtown Sacramento, California, United States. Six people were killed and twelve others were injured. The Sacramento Bee described it as the "worst mass shooting in Sacramento's history". Five shooters are suspected to be involved in the incident.
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Frank Robert James put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times. The shooting occurred as the train was traveling between the 59th Street and 36th Street stations.
On December 26, 2021, a mass shooting took place at a Texaco convenience store in Garland, Texas. 14-year-old Abel Acosta, armed with a .40-caliber pistol, opened fire on several teenagers, killing 3 and seriously injuring one other.