Man charged with felonious assault, kidnapping after firing weapon at officer in southwest Columbus
Court documents say 32-year-old Joshua Pennington fired at least one shot at a Franklin Township officer in the 1400 block of Tall Meadows Drive Thursday afternoon.
Credit: Franklin County Sheriff s Office Author: Brandon Bounds Updated: 3:42 PM EDT July 23, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio The man accused of firing shots at an officer in southwest Columbus Thursday afternoon has been charged.
According to court documents, 32-year-old Joshua Pennington pulled a semi-automatic handgun on his girlfriend and forced her to get into his car.
The court documents say Pennington kept the gun pointed at her before driving to a house in the 1400 block of Tall Meadows Drive where he forced her to go inside.
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Suspect who exchanged gunfire with officers in custody after hours-long search in Franklin Township Eric Lagatta, The Columbus Dispatch © Joshua A. Bickel/Columbus Dispatch Detail of a Franklin County Sheriff s Office cruiser at Franklin County Fleet Management on Wednesday, March 4, 2020
A man who authorities say exchanged gunfire with Franklin Township police before fleeing Thursday afternoon sparked an hours-long manhunt and evacuations to nearby residences.
The search involved multiple law enforcement agencies and required that a mile-and-a-half section of Clime Road in western Franklin County be closed for hours, even after a suspect was taken into custody around 4 p.m.
The incident began after 1:30 p.m. when Franklin Township police received a 911 call about a man threatening a woman with a weapon at a home on Tall Meadows Drive, a residential street south of Clime Road. When police arrived, a male suspect pointed the gun at the responding offic