Ra’Quwan Kilgore, 29, was found with a gunshot wound on the morning of Friday, July 18, 2025, after police were dispatched at 5:52 a.m. to the 300 block of South Guilford Avenue on Columbus’s west side. Medics transported him to Grant Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:03 p.m. that same day.

Officers at the scene reported an adult woman who identified herself as the shooter and said she fired in self-defense after being threatened by Kilgore. Detectives described early indications of domestic violence, recovered a firearm from the front porch, and gathered statements while reconstructing the events that led to the shooting. Police said the woman was cooperating and that no charges had been filed in the initial hours.

The case centers on the circumstances of those dawn events and the domestic-violence indicators investigators noted at the scene. Does anyone in Columbus remember activity or interactions on South Guilford Avenue that morning, or have information that could clarify what happened before the shooting?