COLUMBUS, Ohio -- CPD released the identification of a home-invasion suspect who was fatally shot late Wednesday.
NBC 4 reported with updated FAST FACTS Friday.
CPD was called to a home on the 1500 block of Autumn Village Drive on reports of a shooting at about 11 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers found a man, who was identified later as 19-year-old Steven Ford Jr., on the front porch with a gunshot wound to his neck.
CPD said Ford, who was armed, broke into the home shortly before he was fatally shot by a man who was staying at the home with relatives.
“There was a knock on the door. The resident went to the door, at which time the victim out front entered the house with a firearm in commission of an aggravated robbery,” said CPD homicide Sgt. Dana Norman.
As Ford entered the home, a man picked up his 5-year-old relative to protect child as well as a firearm and fired shots, according to authorities.
Ford attempted to flee the home after being wounded but collapsed on the porch. He died a short time later.
NBC 4 was told the man and Ford did not know each other.
There were four people in home at time of the alleged invasion: a woman, child and two men, one of whom is bedridden.
The identity of the shooter was not released currently.
No other injuries were reported from the incident.
No charges have been filed against the man who shot Ford currently, but the case will be presented to the Franklin County grand jury for review.
Anyone with additional information on the city’s 49th homicide of 2009 was asked to call the CPD homicide squad at 614-645-4730.
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