What Columbus police first logged as a shooting call late Thursday night turned out to be something else entirely: a domestic violence stabbing that left a woman with multiple cuts before she drove herself to a nearby street seeking help. Officers have since charged 20-year-old Kimyada Jordan with felonious assault in connection with the attack.
Police received the initial shooting report at 11:32 p.m. Thursday and responded to the 1100 block of St. Cecelia Drive in Columbus's Hilltop neighborhood, according to myfox28columbus.com. When officers arrived, they found a victim with numerous injuries. It wasn't until Domestic Violence Unit detectives began investigating that they determined the victim had not been shot at all — she had suffered several cuts from an apparent stabbing and cutting attack, the outlet reported.
Investigators learned the assault actually happened roughly a mile away, in the 900 block of Racine Avenue, and that the victim drove herself to the St. Cecelia Drive area afterward. The two locations sit less than 1.5 miles apart within the 43204 ZIP code, according to Ohio Department of Transportation road records. The victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition and is expected to recover, per the same account.
Detectives Processed the Scene, Filed Felony Charge
Domestic Violence Unit detectives processed the scene, per a police news release cited in the report, and Columbus police subsequently charged Jordan with felonious assault. Under Ohio Revised Code § 2903.11, felonious assault is a second-degree felony that can carry a prison term of two to eight years under the state's Reagan Tokes sentencing law, along with fines of up to $15,000, according to Zukerman Law. The statute applies when an offender knowingly causes serious physical harm or uses a deadly weapon.
Because it's a second-degree felony, Jordan's case cannot be resolved in municipal court. Cases like hers move through the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, where they're assigned to one of the county's 17 elected judges following initial arraignment proceedings, according to the Dominy Law Firm.
A Pattern of Rising Felony Domestic Violence Cases
The Columbus Division of Police maintains a specialized Domestic Violence Unit whose detectives handle crime scene processing, victim interviews, and felony filings for intimate partner violence cases, coordinating with local social workers and crisis advocates. That unit's caseload has grown sharply in recent years. Following a 2023 change in Ohio law that reclassified strangulation as an automatic felony, felony domestic violence cases handled by Columbus police jumped from under 300 annually before 2022 to more than 800 in 2024, according to WOSU Public Media. Advocates pushed for that statutory change because strangulation is considered a strong predictor of future severe violence.
Domestic violence accounted for somewhere between nearly a quarter and 40 percent of all homicides investigated in Columbus and Franklin County in 2025, even as overall violent crime and non-domestic homicides in the city declined, per 10TV WBNS. City officials have pointed to that trend in establishing a specialized domestic violence initiative even as broader crime numbers have fallen. Franklin County also received federal Department of Justice grant funding in 2020 to build the Blueprint for Safety, an interagency framework meant to standardize how 911 dispatchers, police, prosecutors, and courts handle domestic violence calls, according to Franklin County, Ohio.
Similar Cases Across Columbus and Franklin County
This isn't the first domestic stabbing to make headlines in the area this year. In April, Columbus police charged a woman after a phone fight in East Columbus escalated into a chest stabbing, with the victim surviving after emergency treatment. And last November, police in nearby Upper Arlington investigated an attempted murder-suicide stabbing on Fishinger Road that left one woman dead and a man hospitalized, illustrating how regional law enforcement treats domestic stabbing calls as high-risk emergencies.
Resources for Survivors
Anyone with information on Thursday's incident is asked to contact the Domestic Violence Unit at 614-645-7225 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers anonymously at 614-461-TIPS (8477). Survivors of domestic violence in Franklin County can also reach the countywide 24/7 hotline at 614-224-4663, which, as of March 2026, is operated by The Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children's Hospital after transitioning from LSS CHOICES to streamline crisis intake for the roughly 5,000 calls the line handles each year, according to Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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