COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A police SWAT was called in to arrest a man charged with an east Columbus shooting early Friday morning.
According to police at the scene, a man was arrested after a woman was shot in the 900 block of East Livingston Avenue in the Livingston Park area. Medics took the woman to an area hospital in stable condition and police began searching for a male suspect.
Court documents later revealed that the woman was walking along East Livingston Avenue when a man, 37-year-old Demetrius Branch, came down from a front porch and fired two rounds from a handgun. One bullet struck the woman in her knee.
The suspect’s vehicle was tracked down to the west side of the city to a residence on South Burgess Avenue, near West Broad Street in the Hilltop. A SWAT unit was called to assist and the suspect eventually came out of the home to surrender after a standoff with police.
Branch, charged with felonious assault, is scheduled to appear before a Franklin County Municipal Court judge Saturday morning for an arraignment hearing.