Ronald Lamar Jones, 34, was killed on March 3, 2021, after officers responding to a reported shooting found him unresponsive on the 100 block of North Oakley Avenue on the West Side of Columbus. He had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene despite efforts by Columbus fire paramedics.

Witnesses at the scene identified Dwight Turner, Jr., 32, of Morsetown Court South, as the shooter. Turner fled but a warrant was obtained for murder; he was arrested the following day and held in Franklin County jail. Prosecutors charged him with murder, felonious assault, and firing a weapon into a home. Evidence presented at trial included testimony that Turner had fired multiple shots into a home on the 3200 block of Payday Lane, where his former girlfriend’s parents lived, before going to the scene where Jones was shot. Turner was convicted on one count of murder, felonious assault, and the weapons charge and sentenced to prison.

The motive for Jones’s killing remains unknown. If anyone knew Ronald Jones, his routines, or has information about what led to the shooting, please come forward.