A person was seriously injured in a shooting in the Short North early Sunday morning, and police say someone is now in custody. Officers were called to the intersection of North High Street and Buttles Avenue around 1:30 a.m., where they found one person suffering from a gunshot wound.
The injured person was transported to a nearby hospital, according to a Columbus public safety dispatcher cited by 10TV. That person was initially listed in critical condition before being upgraded to stable, the dispatcher said. Information about what led up to the shooting was not immediately available.
The dispatcher also confirmed that a person was in custody in connection with the shooting, though further details on that arrest were not released. The Short North has seen a string of gunfire incidents in recent months, and not all of them have matched in outcome or location — a reminder that this stretch of North High Street has drawn repeated police response even as the broader trend in Columbus points the other way.
A Neighborhood With a Mixed Recent Record
Other shootings and shots-fired calls have cropped up around the Short North corridor over the past year, with differing results.
Separately, NBC4 reported that shots were fired near North High Street and East Fourth Avenue just after 1 a.m. in an incident where nobody was hit, though several cars and a building were struck by gunfire. And according to ABC6 On Your Side, a Saturday-night shots-fired call in the neighborhood resulted in no reported injuries or fatalities.
Short North Crime Trends Run in Two Directions
ABC6 reported that, according to information on the Short North Alliance’s official website, overall property and violent crime rates in the neighborhood have significantly declined, while late-night crime has risen.
Zooming out further, Columbus ranked fifth among large U.S. cities for declines in gun victimizations between 2021 and 2025, according to an April 2026 Center for American Progress report cited by The Columbus Dispatch. Gun victimizations in the city fell by more than 63% over that span, and Columbus closed out 2025 with fewer than 100 homicides — the first time that had happened since 2015. As of mid-April 2026, the city had recorded 13 homicides for the year, including eight shootings, according to city police data referenced in that report. The city established its Office of Violence Prevention in 2023 as part of a broader community safety strategy, the Dispatch noted.
Similar flashpoints have surfaced before near the Short North and the nearby Ohio State University campus. Over the first weekend of September 2025, shootings were reported both near campus and in the Short North, according to ABC6. In one of those incidents, near East 12th Avenue, the victim died. ABC6 also reported a different Short North shooting.
