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Suspect flees backyard after shooting near Riverbirch DrColumbus OH

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Riverbirch Dr & Shadycrest Rd, Columbus, OH 43229

Police are searching for a male suspect involved in a shooting near Riverbirch Dr and Shadycrest Rd. The suspect fled into a backyard nearby, and officers, including a chopper, are on scene establishing a perimeter. The suspect may have discarded evidence in a bush near the corner by the garages. The shooter is described as a male wearing a white t-shirt and yellow sweatpants with writing. Multiple vehicles and suspects are being tracked.

Audio|Source: Columbus Police Dispatch - Citywide
07:39
Transcript:
00:00
I respond to the 43 will be code for.
00:03
Copy. See,
00:09
they're on the south and the red roof.
00:18
If there is any canine, channel one.
00:26
Yes, 911[1] to OSB Chopper, can you call out some streets to set up a perimeter there?
00:37
All right, there's some officers in the front yard of sugar maple, near Riverbirch Dr. All right, the officers that are next to an SUV in a driveway, the backyard of that house.
00:55
We've got a couple officers that are near a shed.
00:59
It's actually on the opposite side of the fence.
01:01
Yeah,
01:02
watch a crossfire.
01:04
Yep, but you come all the way up to the privacy fence. Keep coming past that shed that you guys are at.
01:12
Right, to the south,
01:14
past the shed. You guys are at the shed.
01:17
Just past the shed on the other side of that privacy fence, there's a lean to,
01:21
and there's some movement in there. I can't tell what it is, but there's movement in there.
01:29
To the south, there's one guy at the fence and two officers at the tile.
01:33
You're in the right house, straight back from where you're looking. If you look straight north, there's a lean to in the north,
01:42
what's that, northeast corner.
01:44
There's something hot in there.
01:50
Chopper is at the yard with the Christmas lights or south of that or where?
01:56
Oh,
01:58
the Christmas lights.
01:59
There's an officer on top of the shed looking at the lean-to right now. Yep, you've got your light on it.
02:08
Anybody still on 60, shut it down.
02:15
But it is moving around on the inside of that chair there.
02:23
This might be a chicken coup, we're trying to figure out now.
02:32
93.
02:34
Copy on the Southwest Vehicle, Black Chevy Malibu, North Malam James at 143.
02:42
Copy.
02:43
Copy that. Copy that.
02:53
And the vehicles...
02:56
Vehicles at 16, 13, Penwarth, S-31.
03:00
Yeah, we've got another car clear, whatever area that chopper aired, about them dumping something in a bush, can we get somebody to go check that area?
03:11
Yeah, if anybody can head to Shady Crest and River Birch, said at the corner, in the bush near the garages, where they possibly pick something.
03:25
278, sir.
03:29
King, William Boy, 278, Shakespeare, or King Ocean Boy?
03:36
All doing all right.
03:41
S-18 for okay.
03:47
S-18 to Topper.
03:49
Where exactly is the voice said they through that?
03:56
A chopper standby, we're trying to call out something else for another officer real quick.
04:01
It should be notated on the run. I can't remember exactly what it is right on the corner.
04:07
Give me a second, we'll have to go back and look at the video real quick.
04:14
Shady crest and river birch near the corner said the house near the garage is at a bush.
04:27
Chopper General Ryan.
04:34
Hey Chopper, we had one that had taken off at a mail running out the back of 117 at Granary.
04:41
Cross is our watermelon cotton mill.
04:47
Do you smell it?
04:54
Robert Adam, Nancy Adam, Robert Young.
05:01
Bosses.
05:04
Watermill and Cotton Mill.
05:10
Nine, there should be a, if you do find a vehicle, male black driver wearing all black.
05:17
Passenger is going to be a male black. Reds maybe, red hat, all white, clothing.
05:25
The shooter's still going to be male black white t-shirt, yellow sweatpants with riding on the side of them.
05:36
Go.
05:41
John?
05:43
Fun. Having. Having.
05:51
Well, if anybody can give me the tag of that vehicle,
05:54
is it actually the King Link-Moleum 7298?
05:59
7-1-22A4.
06:06
If it is, it's going to be an unreported at this time.
06:14
(name withheld)'s daughter was at this location using an iPad to call her mom.
06:18
Said that her dad was here trying to physically fight her.
06:22
He's a male black, we're an all-black.
06:28
Male black, all-black.
06:30
Give you a TOT.
06:35
I think he took off head in southbound.
06:37
Eastbound through the complex back out towards High Street right now.
06:41
This is going to be a good... Chopper, okay.
06:44
Eastbound through the complex back to High Street. We'll be overhead 30 seconds.
06:52
Okay. Chopper, are you still on the air?
06:57
Chopper, we're still here.
07:01
Hey, the house that I've put the strobe on,
07:05
is that right here at the corner,
07:08
is that the house you saw them running into the backyard of?
07:16
If I were trying to get you on the camera.
07:24
That's a firm, that's where he went into the backyard.
07:31
to ALPR[2] Miss Vehicle Parks at Wilson and Den Alley a lot so he'd have someone check there for it.
Police codes explained
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[1]
911: Hang-up call from the emergency number
[2]
ALPR: Automatic License Plate Reader

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Riverbirch Dr & Shadycrest Rd, Columbus, OH 43229
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