Police still investigating east Columbus homicide five years removed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Five years after a murder on the East Side, police are still searching for leads.
On May 5, 2019, Columbus police received a 911 call, advising there was a body next to a fence in the alley behind the 1300 block of Gault Street, in the Driving Park neighborhood. Officers and Columbus Division of Fire personnel arrived to find Jayelin Wilson dead from a gunshot wound.
A preliminary investigation that Wilson, 23, was engaged in a gun battle with at least one other person. At around the same time, two people of interest walked into Grant Medical Center with gunshot wounds, but no arrests have been made.
Central Ohio Crime Stoppers is asking anyone with information about this crime to call 614-461-TIPS (8477) or visit www.stopcrime.org and submit your tip.