Aljuanta Counts, a 24-year-old man from Columbus, Ohio, was shot and killed on July 8, 2020. He was found in the 3100 block of Ruhl Avenue near the Africentric Early College campus after police were called about 12:12 a.m.; Counts was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 1:13 a.m.

A co-worker, 21-year-old Shannon Weaver, was charged in connection with the shooting. Court documents say Weaver claimed a brief altercation and that he felt threatened because Counts appeared to be reaching for a gun; no firearm was recovered at the scene. Weaver later turned himself in.

In August 2022 Weaver pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a firearm specification and was sentenced to 14 to 19½ years in prison; the judge ordered Weaver’s firearm confiscated and destroyed. Family members of Counts spoke in court urging a maximum sentence.

Did anyone in the Ruhl Avenue area see or hear anything around midnight on July 8, 2020 that might shed more light on what happened?