One person died after a shooting in an alley near Sullivant and Brehl avenues in Columbus’ Franklinton neighborhood Tuesday night, according to a city public safety dispatcher. No details about a suspect or what led to the gunfire have been released.
Columbus Division of Police officers were called to the area around 10:50 p.m. Tuesday after a report of a shooting, a dispatcher told 10TV. One person was shot and pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m., per that same dispatcher account.
Beyond the time and location, little else about the case has come to light. The station’s report noted that no information about a suspect or a possible motive had been released as of its publication, leaving the circumstances of the shooting unclear for now.
A Stretch of Sullivant Avenue With a Troubled Past
A fatal shooting in the 4700 block of Sullivant Avenue left Christopher Santiago-Flores with a gunshot wound shortly before 11:30 p.m.; medics pronounced him dead. A separate police archive entry also lists a homicide from October 2017 in the area of Sullivant and Brehl avenues, the same intersection named in Tuesday’s incident. The available police records do not establish any connection between those earlier cases and Tuesday’s shooting.
Homicides Trending Down Citywide So Far This Year
The shooting comes as Columbus has been tracking fewer homicides than in recent years. As of June 29, 2026, police had investigated 35 homicides citywide compared with 40 at the same point in 2025, according to WOSU Public Media. The outlet reported that the city ended 2025 with just over 80 homicides and was on pace to stay under 100 again this year.
WOSU also reported that more than half of the homicide cases investigated through the middle of 2026 involved domestic violence or an argument, based on Columbus Division of Police data, and that 25 of this year’s homicide victims had been shot, even as the department reported investigating fewer shootings overall than at the same point in 2025. Those midyear figures offer broader context on citywide violence trends, but they do not indicate whether Tuesday’s shooting would factor into an updated year-end count.
No further details about Tuesday’s shooting, including any possible suspect, had been released as of the time of this report.
