Gunfire broke out at a community gathering on Columbus’s Westside on November 1, 2026, striking one person with fragments and sending police scrambling for cell-phone video that might show who pulled the trigger. The shooting happened during the Westside E’Canty Day Event at Elizabeth Canty Apartments, 2000 Cusseta Road, with shots reported sometime between 7:30 and 8 p.m. on November 1.
What Happened at the Community Event
According to CNAW2, one person was struck by fragments when the shots rang out at the event. The Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit is now seeking witnesses and anyone who may have captured the incident on their phones, as the outlet reports.
Investigators say witnesses described seeing a group of people carrying backpacks walking from the area of 20th Avenue and Second Street toward the event shortly before the gunfire started, per the same report. It remains unclear whether that group had any connection to the shooting itself — the account only notes that witnesses saw them approaching beforehand.
How to Reach Police
Anyone with information has been asked to call the Violent Crimes Unit at 706-225-3785. Police also said video clips can be submitted through Facebook Messenger, according to the CNAW2 report. As of the report’s publication, the investigation into the shooting was still ongoing, with no further updates on a suspect or motive disclosed.
A Complex With a Troubled History
This isn’t the first time gunfire has erupted at the Elizabeth Canty complex. In 2017, two men were shot near building 303 around 8:15 p.m., with one struck in the chin and the other in the right thigh; WTVM reported both injuries were considered non-life-threatening and that Columbus police believed it could have been a drive-by shooting.
More recently, a June 2024 shooting at the same apartments killed 15-year-old Michael Scott around 6 p.m., according to the Ledger-Enquirer. That October, a separate shooting at Elizabeth Canty Homes left a woman dead, the paper also reported. And in June 2025, CNAW2 reported another shooting in the 200 block of 20th Avenue at the complex that left one person injured.
None of those earlier incidents are tied to the circumstances of the November 1 shooting — they stand as a grim pattern at the same address rather than evidence in this case. For now, Columbus police are focused on building out the timeline of what happened at the Westside E’Canty Day Event, and they’re counting on the public’s phones to help fill in the gaps.
