Tyris Sowell, 30, was shot inside his tattoo studio on the 3000 block of Templeton Road on Columbus’s East Side late morning on October 7, 2025. Officers were dispatched at 11:01 a.m.; he was taken to Grant Medical Center and pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m. Homicide Detectives Lemmon and Polgar are listed as leading the investigation.

Detectives later identified a suspect and secured a murder charge against 30-year-old Shaquir Cromwell; local reporting says Cromwell knew Sowell and that a dispute preceded the gunfire. Investigators and Sowell’s family publicly urged Cromwell to surrender, and police were still seeking him after the charge. Sowell was remembered in community tributes as a rising tattoo artist who had opened his shop about a year earlier, a devoted father of two with a child on the way, and a son who had recently lost a twin brother.

If anyone knew Tyris, his studio, or has information about the shooting, please share what can help the investigation.