On July 25, 2017, officers found 31-year-old James Lundy unresponsive in a yard in the 1600 block of Smith Road on Columbus’s southeast side. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at 3:32 p.m. Investigators say Lundy had been in a physical altercation with 22-year-old Zhontel M. Angel over a woman who was both the mother of Angel’s child and the daughter of Lundy’s fiancée.

During the confrontation Angel reportedly produced a firearm and shot Lundy multiple times, causing his death. Angel was arrested and charged with murder. James Marquis Lundy Sr. is remembered as a devoted family man who leaves behind two children and his fiancée.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about what happened that afternoon, please come forward.