Male suspected of dumping pistol at gas station trash can, Columbus OH
WeaponsA male wearing all black with shiny white sneakers was observed near Caprice Ave at the Kroger gas station. He was with a small child and was seen dumping a pistol or similar object into a trash can. Officers are tracking and attempting to apprehend him.
Audio|Source: Columbus Police Dispatch - Citywide
03:48
Transcript:
00:00
We're at the H-C ball up.
00:01
What's your description on this?
00:03
Male, black, black shirt, black pants?
00:05
Okay, we only have two vehicles in the parking lot.
00:09
One is out front on the Georgia'sville Square side.
00:13
And I can't tell.
00:16
Looks like maybe a male black and all black.
00:18
Oh yeah, I do see a kid, yeah.
00:19
Female white. Small child, male black, all black.
00:22
We have a light on it. He's got real shiny white sneakers.
00:25
He is now headed westbound.
00:27
He's going to westbound over to the Kroger gas station.
00:30
That looks like your collar is staying at the stakehouse.
00:32
Again, the male black, all black.
00:34
He's got white reflective stripes on his sneakers and maybe a white emblem on his chest.
00:42
He's no black bag.
00:43
Looks like he's dumping a pistol or something into the trash can under the awning of the gas station of the Kruger.
00:49
Copy 104, can I get your head off that way as well?
00:53
Chopper, it looks best with my ability, he's under the honor, but he is empty in the content of his backpack, into the center trash can in the middle of the island of the Clover gas station.
01:03
Copy.
01:04
to Thompson Park on a 5-5.
01:07
Copy.
01:08
I'm clear parcel of code 1.
01:10
Can you work me on another 45A 860 Jefferson Chase? I know if you play.
01:15
I copy 860 Jefferson Chase.
01:17
Page 3, we'll be out here as well.
01:19
Copy. Thanks, Mark.
01:20
Copy.
01:21
29 Toyota SW...
01:23
SW.
01:24
That'll be him on your left.
01:26
I'll guide you into him.
01:27
He's getting up. And, uh, Cruiser, he's starting to walk south now.
01:30
He's going to go back down to a hole.
01:32
But yeah, let's do if we can't get under the cruiser with this guy.
01:34
I copy chop.
01:35
The cruiser is the guy right there on your right and the grass.
01:38
How far up the next far?
01:39
Put up on the 60.
01:40
Run in it, guys.
01:41
A4, coming from Brown and Willis.
01:42
Hopper, you have officers taking contact with that mail right now.
01:45
Okay, we found it.
01:46
Okay, keep that other car on a 60.
01:48
Let's get him over to the trash can at the gas station.
01:52
What's the trash can? What was the gas station again? Program?
01:56
It's the Croker gas station that is just to the east of the traffic stop or the itchibon there.
02:03
It's the center, well I'll light it up with my light, it's the center aisle trash can, right in the middle.
02:09
And as soon as we got overhead, he made the beamline for that and a certain temperance look back.
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Location mentioned:
Caprice Ave, Columbus, OH 43004
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