On April 17, 2017, at about 1:56 a.m., Columbus police responded to a shooting at 840 Wedgewood Avenue where a vehicle was found with multiple people injured in and around it. Omar Abdulkadir Ali, 25, was located unresponsive in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m. after EMS attempted aid. Two other people were found outside the vehicle with gunshot wounds and were taken to Mt. Carmel West Hospital in critical condition.

The shooting was counted among a violent stretch in Columbus; it was the city’s 37th homicide for 2017, and a few days later one of the other victims, Mohamed Mohamed, 21, died of injuries from the same incident.

If anyone has information about events at 840 Wedgewood Avenue on April 17, 2017, please contact the Columbus Police Department.