A woman is facing a felonious assault charge after Columbus police say she shot a man during a domestic violence incident on the city's east side. Officers responding to a report of a shooting on the 3400 block of Stamford Bridge on Tuesday found a man suffering from a gunshot wound, and the female suspect was taken into custody at the scene.
The victim was transported to a local hospital, where police said he was in stable condition and expected to survive, according to WSYX. Columbus police confirmed the arrest, and the station reports that Domestic Violence Unit detectives are handling the investigation. The suspect has been charged with felonious assault, though further details about the relationship between the two people involved have not been released.
A Felony Carrying Years in Prison
Under Ohio Revised Code § 2903.11, felonious assault is a second-degree felony punishable by two to eight years in state prison and fines up to $15,000, according to Ohio law. If the case is indicted with a firearm specification, Ohio Revised Code § 2941.145 mandates an additional, consecutive three-year prison term for offenders who displayed, brandished, or used a gun to commit the offense, per state statute. It remains unclear whether prosecutors will pursue that specification in this case.
The Stamford Bridge shooting is not the first East Side domestic firearm case to draw a felonious assault charge this year. In February, Columbus police arrested a 57-year-old woman on the 3400 block of Petzinger Road and charged her with the same offense after a shooting left a victim hospitalized in stable condition, as Hoodline previously reported.
Domestic Violence Cases Rising Across the County
The incident lands amid a broader climb in felony domestic violence cases across Columbus. Following a 2023 Ohio law change that reclassified strangulation as an automatic felony, felony domestic violence cases handled by Columbus police surged from under 300 annually before 2022 to more than 800 in 2024, according to WOSU Public Media. Domestic violence incidents accounted for between 25% and 40% of all homicides investigated in Columbus and Franklin County in 2025, even as overall homicides and non-domestic violent crime in the city declined, per WBNS-TV.
Franklin County agencies coordinate their response to these calls through the Blueprint for Safety, an interagency framework launched with a $900,000 federal Department of Justice grant in 2020 to standardize how 911 dispatchers, patrol officers, prosecutors, and probation officers handle domestic violence reports, according to Franklin County officials. Under Ohio Revised Code § 2935.03(B)(3)(b), officers responding to domestic violence calls are legally directed to evaluate the scene and arrest whoever is identified as the primary physical aggressor when probable cause exists.
Resources for Survivors
Survivors seeking emergency help have a newly centralized option. As of March, operations for the 24/7 Franklin County Domestic Violence Hotline, reachable at 614-224-4663, were transferred to The Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children's Hospital to centralize intake and emergency services, the organization announced. Lutheran Social Services CHOICES also operates the only dedicated emergency domestic violence shelter in Franklin County, offering confidential shelter, legal advocacy, and even pet placement in partnership with Columbus Humane.
Public scrutiny of how Columbus police handle domestic disturbance calls has intensified in recent months. The City of Columbus paid more than $21 million between 2018 and 2023 to resolve civil liability claims involving the Columbus Division of Police, including claims tied to lawsuits over officer response protocols during domestic disturbance calls, according to reporting on a related lawsuit. Whether prior domestic violence calls occurred at the Stamford Bridge address has not been disclosed, and Franklin County Municipal Court has not yet released an arraignment schedule for the suspect.
