A young person shot in Columbus' Hilltop neighborhood walked into Nationwide Children's Hospital for help early Wednesday morning, arriving with a gunshot wound just before 4 a.m. Police say the victim is expected to survive, though investigators have not said what led up to the shooting.
According to myfox28columbus.com, Columbus police say the shooting happened at a home along South Burgess Avenue before the victim made their own way to the hospital. As ABC 6 reported, police said the victim is okay and is expected to survive, but investigators have not released additional details about what led up to the shooting.
No suspect, weapon, or motive has been publicly identified, and the exact address on South Burgess Avenue has not been disclosed. The station's report does not say whether the victim is a minor or an adult, leaving much of the circumstance surrounding the shooting unclear for now.
A Pattern of Walk-In Shooting Victims Near Children's Hospital
This is not the first time this year that a gunshot victim has sought help by walking directly into a hospital rather than waiting for an ambulance. In a separate incident, a 41-year-old man identified as Larry Edwards walked into Nationwide Children's Hospital after being shot and was pronounced dead shortly after 11 p.m. that Monday night, according to NBC4 Columbus. Police in that case had responded to reports of shots fired in the area of Parsons Avenue at 10:33 p.m. and believed the shooting may have occurred near Livingston Park; officers towed a vehicle around 3:30 a.m. that may have been connected, though no potential suspects were known at the time.
Another incident left one person hospitalized after a reported shooting near South 22nd Street and East Livingston Avenue, just a few blocks from the hospital, with police saying the injured person was taken to a hospital in unstable condition, per the same NBC4 account. In a separate case reported by ABC 6, a person with a gunshot wound walked into a local hospital early one Friday morning after an incident near the 3100 block of Allegheny Avenue, with the adult victim reportedly in stable condition and expected to recover.
Violence Spike Across Columbus This Fall
The Hilltop shooting comes as Columbus has seen a stretch of deadly violence citywide. ABC 6 reported that over one recent weekend there were eight shootings and two stabbings, with at least five people losing their lives to violence since that Friday. As of the following Monday, Columbus police had reported 63 homicides for the year, compared with 62 reported at the same point the previous year, the station noted.
Police have also charged 86 homicide suspects so far in 2026, and 33 of them — 38 percent — are 21 years old or younger, according to the same ABC 6 report. The station separately noted that the death of Cedric Cole was identified as Columbus' 64th homicide of 2026 and was not included in those earlier statistics.
For now, the Hilltop case remains an open investigation. Police have not said whether anyone has been identified as a suspect, and no arrest has been announced in connection with the shooting on South Burgess Avenue.
