A late-night shooting on Columbus’s North Side left a 17-year-old dead and another teen wounded. On May 4, 2025, at about 3:58 AM officers found Ariyaun Burton, a 17-year-old Black male, and a second male with gunshot wounds inside a Toyota Rav4 parked at a Sheetz on East Dublin-Granville Road. The two had fled an initial shooting on East Lincoln Avenue near Roche Drive and Roche Place before stopping in the Sheetz parking lot.

Both victims were taken to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital; Ariyaun Burton was pronounced dead at 4:38 AM. The other victim was reported in stable condition and expected to survive. Investigators placed at least 17 evidence markers for shell casings at the original scene and noted the SUV’s rear window appeared to have been shot out. Detectives Miller and Weiner are assigned to the homicide investigation; no suspects or arrests have been announced.

Anyone with information about the events on East Lincoln Avenue or the shooting at the Sheetz is asked to contact the Columbus Police Homicide Unit or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers.