On July 23, 2026, 21-year-old Maliek Marshaun Venson was shot and killed in an alley in the 2300 block of Hamilton Avenue in the South Linden neighborhood of Columbus. Officers responded to reports of shots fired around 3:30 a.m. and found Venson unresponsive with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:43 a.m. His obituary gives his date of birth as February 23, 2005.

Police identified 19-year-old Danyo Sellers as the alleged shooter and a warrant for murder was issued, but Sellers remains at large. The charge followed Sellers’s earlier acquittal in an unrelated 2023 Youngstown case. No arrests have been made in Venson’s homicide and there has been no trial or sentencing.

Anyone with information about Sellers’s whereabouts or the events in the alley is asked to contact the Columbus Division of Police.