PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Ohio Self Defense: Police: CCW permit holder fatally shoots 18-year-old suspect during attempted robbery in Linden :: 01/12/2021
Police said the 18-year-old and a 17-year-old tried to rob a man at a market.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An 18-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday night by a man who has a concealed carry license after the teenager tried to rob him, according to Columbus police.
Officers were called to the E&E Food Market in the 700 block of East Hudson Street in the Linden area around 7:25 p.m.
When officers arrived, they found 18-year-old Kiran Hill shot. He was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital in critical condition, where he later died.
Police said Hill and 17-year-old Josiah Cocroft tried to rob a 33-year-old man at the market.
Police said Hill pulled a gun on the man and then the man, who has a CCW permit, pulled out his own gun.
Hill was shot when he and the man exchanged gunfire, police said.
The man who shot Hill stayed at the scene.
Police arrested Cocroft, who detectives said was with Hill, and charged him with murder.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477.
Hill's death is the 12th homicide in Columbus in 2021.
