Last week, the agency filed a second-degree felonious assault charge against 18-year-old Shawn D. Jones Jr., of Columbus, after they say he admitted to shooting a girl in the back of her head on Thursday.
A criminal complaint filed in Licking County Common Pleas Court last week said Pataskala police were called to the 4700 block of Summit Road in Pataskala for a reported shooting on Thursday. Upon arrival, officers said they learned a 16-year-old girl was shot in the back of her head and had been taken to Mount Carmel East Hospital by Jones.
After making contact with the defendant at the hospital, the agency said Jones admitted to shooting the victim in the back of her head and tossing the firearm out the window on the way to the hospital.
View Comments
PATASKALA - A Columbus man is in custody after police say he admitted to shooting a 16-year-old in her head earlier this week.
Shawn D. Jones Jr., 18, of Columbus, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Licking County Common Pleas Court, Pataskala police were called to the 4700 block of Summit Road in Pataskala for a reported shooting on Thursday. Upon arrival, officers said they learned a 16-year-old girl was shot in the back of her head and had been taken to Mount Carmel East Hospital by Jones.
Two teens, in fact.
One of them, you know. Ma Khia Bryant, 16, was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer who had been summoned to a report of an attempted stabbing.
Police body camera footage shows Bryant rushing at another girl with a knife in her hand, at which point the officer shoots her.
Police called the shooting an unavoidable tragedy. But coming as it did within an hour of the guilty verdict against Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Bryant s death became the latest flashpoint in the national debate over police use of force.
Her death made national news. Protesters took to the streets, shouting out her name. A monument of stuffed animals, flowers and silvery balloons grew on Legion Lane, the East Side residential street where she lived
EXCLUSIVE: Ma Khia Byrant s grief-stricken biological mother reveals her other daughter, 15, watched her 16-year-old sister get shot dead by a rookie cop and says they were together chatting about make up just days before her death
Ma Khia Bryant s distraught biological mother Paula Byrant, 42, told Dailymail.com: The last thing I said to her was, honey I love you
The 16-year-old was shot outside her foster home in Columbus, Ohio, last week by an officer while she was in an altercation with another girl
Paula revealed one of Ma Khia s sisters – 15-year-old Janiah – also lived at the home and watched her sister get hit by four bullets
Mount Carmel Health now offering walk-in COVID-19 vaccine appointments 10tv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 10tv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.