A Franklin County grand jury on Friday voted not to indict eight Columbus Division of Police officers in the shooting death of Abdisamad Ismail. On July 6, 2023, Columbus police officers responded to an armed bank robbery on Hilliard Rome Road. Police located a stolen Porsc...

The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secured a guilty plea Monday from Michael Wright, 70, for the stabbing death of his sister, Rhonda Jones, in 2023. Assistant prosecutors Mark Wodarcyk and Simon Huh prosecuted the case for the prosecutor’s office. On May 7, ...

On April 11, the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secured a guilty plea from Michael Mickens Jr., 27, for the 2023 fatal shooting of Isiaha Thompson-Angus. Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys Mark Wodarcyk and Zachary Imwalle prosecuted the case for the prosecutor’s ...

On April 2, the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secured a guilty plea from Cassandra Franklin, 41, of Columbus, for the 2023 fatal shooting of Michael Sarratt. Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys Jack Wong and Gillian Bateyunga prosecuted the case for the prosecutor...

A Franklin County jury and judge on Monday found Kaleb Queen, 35, guilty of six counts related to a 2022 shooting near a Columbus Division of Police substation on Woodrow Avenue. Cory Helffrich and Steven Schott prosecuted the case for the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney...

A jury on Monday found Dallas Lowery guilty of murder and other charges in the 2022 death of Heather Chapman. Daniel Meyer and Billie Gallagher prosecuted the case for the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. With their 2-month-old daughter in the room, Lowery shot...

Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced that after a four-day trial, Xavier Wilks, 31, of Columbus, was found guilty today of aggravated robbery, murder, and having weapons under disability. On Sept. 16, 2021, Travis Knisley, 23, of Frankfort, Ohio, was walk...

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Karen Held Phipps yesterday sentenced Isaiah Brown-Miller to at least 26 years in prison for his role in the murder of Mohamed Hassan Adam, an imam at the Masjid Abu Hurairah mosque in Columbus and a leader in the local Muslim and So...

Phillip Wade, 34, of Gahanna was sentenced Feb. 29 to 22 to 24 years in prison by Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Karen Phipps for a series of robberies he committed in 2023. On Jan. 20, 2023, Wade entered a house, robbed the residents at gunpoint and locked the...

Pammy Maye, 48, who has been charged with one count of aggravated murder, three counts of tampering with evidence and one count of abuse of a corpse in the death of Darnell Taylor, a 5-year-old boy in her care, pleaded not guilty today during her arraignment in the Franklin Co...