Man dead in southeast Columbus after police involved incident

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One person is dead and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigating a shooting in the far southeast side of Columbus.

At around 4:02 a.m. officers responded to the George's Creek Apartment complex on Georges Creek Drive, off Gender Road near Canal Winchester. There, police are investigating a shooting that has caused the closure of a portion of Gender Road near the incident.

Columbus police requested BCI to investigate an “officer-involved critical incident”, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. CPD said in a release that officers responded to a man threatening to take his own life and the lives of those who were in the house with him.

The man reportedly shot at the officers, who then returned fire. At some point during the exchange the suspect incurred a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 4:32 a.m.

No officers were injured in the shooting and the scene remains active as authorities continue to investigate what led to the incident.

It is the third fatal shooting involving a Columbus police officer since Saturday. One man was killed after firing a rifle at officers on McCallister Avenue while Another man was killed after engaging in a shootout with police, who followed him from an Amazon warehouse where he shot at a security guard.