On August 23, 2024, at about 8:57 p.m., Javier Roberto Ventura-Sanchez, 20, was shot in the upper chest in the parking lot of the Home Depot at 100 South Grener Ave. in west Franklin County, Ohio. He was taken to Doctors Hospital and pronounced dead at 9:45 p.m. The shooting followed an earlier argument; Ventura-Sanchez and a friend had gone to the parking lot to meet a 17-year-old boy, identified by the sheriff’s office as Francisco Calvillo. Deputies say Calvillo opened fire and then fled the scene. An arrest warrant charging Calvillo with aggravated murder has been issued, and as of August 28, 2024 he remained at large.

A gray 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 believed to have been driven by Calvillo was found unoccupied on August 24 in the 3900 block of East Broad Street in Whitehall. Investigators impounded and searched the truck and recovered six .22-caliber rifle casings and a cartridge with additional .22-caliber bullets. Ventura-Sanchez is survived by parents Nicolas Ventura and Belen Sanchez and siblings Neli, Nancy, Maria, and Abelardo; a funeral Mass was scheduled for August 30, 2024, at Our Lady of Guadelupe in Columbus with burial at Galloway Cemetery.

Anyone with information about the shooting or Francisco Calvillo’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau; anonymous tips will be accepted. Have any readers seen the Dodge Ram or have information about that August 23 meeting?