On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 25-year-old Abdisalim Mohamud was shot during an altercation in a parking lot at Agler Road and Citygate Drive in Columbus, Ohio. Mohamud and another 25-year-old man, Nuradin Abdi Ali, were both wounded and got into a vehicle to flee; the car crashed in the 2200 block of North Cassady Avenue. Emergency crews found Mohamud in the wrecked vehicle with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at 3:41 p.m. at Grant Medical Center. Ali initially ran from the crash but returned as police secured the scene and was treated for a gunshot wound.

Columbus police treated the incident as a homicide arising from the earlier parking-lot altercation. Despite a surviving witness, no suspects or motive have been publicly identified and the case is listed as an unsolved homicide. Anyone with information that could help resolve Abdisalim Mohamud’s death is asked to contact the Columbus Police Department.