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Officers were called to the 4100 block of Rickenbacker Avenue around 11:40 a.m. on the report of a fully-engulfed mobile home.

The hearse that circled the streets surrounding Columbus City Hall Monday evening had no dead to transport. The Cadillac, in fact, was nowhere near large enough to accommodate all the people those in the procession had come to mourn — all of them killed by Columbus police. As an estimated 50 cars drove in a loop blaring their horns, a group of faith leaders assembled outside City Hall to call for an end to the fatal shootings that they say were the result of aggressive —  if not racist — policing practices. "We're standing against policing without compassion. We're standing again...

Flanked by members of Bryant's family, organizer Hana Abdur-Rahim struck a somber tone before those gathered on a sunny April Sunday afternoon. "Today we are here to continue to lift up the life of Ma'Khia Bryant," she told the crowd. "I don't need a video to know she was a child and she deserved to live." She then introduced a woman named Myra Duke who said she was Bryant's aunt. Speaking to the crowd, Duke thanked them for their dedication to her niece and expressed how sorely the girl's family misses her. "It doesn't seem real," said Duke, who later declined to talk to the Dispatch but sai...

… A neighbor who saw paramedics take the victims to the hospital said all the victims were children, celebrating a birthday party in a garage nearby. Rashad Bolden lives two doors down from where the shooting took place, and he told WWLTV’s Paul Dudley he was home when the shooting happened Saturday night. … “Everybody I saw taken to the ambulance — they were all kids,” Bolden said. “I looked out my window and saw a whole bunch of people scurrying, so I came outside.” Bolden said he believes the shooter was also a child. “For someone to just shoot into the garage full of kid...

Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther began his 2021 State of the City speech at 6 p.m. Wednesday, a few hours after the release of body camera footage of the latest killing of a Black man by law enforcement officers, including city police. As protesters prepared to gather and march through Downtown to counter the facts as outlined by police — namely that Miles Jackson was a wanted man who had a gun on him and fired at police when he was shot and killed inside Mount Carmel St. Ann's medical center — Ginther reflected on a year rife with similar division and turmoil.