COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two men were charged for allegedly shooting a father holding his 10-month-old child in the parking lot of a grocery store in Whitehall Sunday evening, police said.
At 5:35 p.m., officers with the Whitehall Division of Police responded to a report of shots fired near the Kroger Great Eastern complex at 850 South Hamilton Rd.
Arriving officers found the father at the scene who was shot in the nose. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Police said the child was not injured, though one of the shots narrowly missed them.
The father told the officers he was approached by two people, identified as Shyler Swank and Christopher Dumon. One of them was recording the incident on a phone while the other fired several shots at the father, according to police.
Records from Franklin County Municipal Court state that Swank fired shots at the father's fiancee who was seven months pregnant.
The father told police that he knew Swank and Dumon from the past but hadn’t seen them in several years.
Police said Swank and Dumon were taken into custody shortly after the shooting. Dumon was charged with three counts of complicity and Swank was charged with three counts of felonious assault.
Swank is scheduled to appear in Franklin County Municipal Court on Tuesday.
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