COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus police and Ohio State officers set up crime scene tape Thursday evening at a hospital on the university’s campus.
The pair of agencies were investigating a car with visible bullet holes, along with one victim with a gunshot wound, who arrived at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center at 5:44 p.m. Police connected the victim to an earlier reported shooting in South Linden.
Shortly after arriving, Delvon Wilkerson Jr., 21, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center. The other shooting victim, also 21, was taken to Grant Medical Center and is expected to survive while in stable condition.
Police verified that the 5:17 p.m. shooting did not happen on Ohio State’s campus, but rather in the 1100 block of East 21st Ave, where both shooting victims were involved in an altercation that resulted in gunfire. What led up to the shooting remains unknown.
Photos taken at the scene showed both Ohio State University police and Columbus officers’ cars parked at the hospital. The agencies had crime scene tape set up near guideposts for the campus. Another photo showed a car within the crime scene tape had its back window broken out, and visible bullet holes on the rear car door.
Police ask that anyone with information regarding this incident to call Columbus Police Detective Pribe at (614) 645-0114, the Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730, or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).