COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus police detectives have filed a warrant to charge a suspect with murder in the shooting death of a man in August.
Detectives filed the warrant against 20-year-old Zaire Jones on Tuesday.
Police said officers went to the 1400 block of Hildreth Avenue in the Mount Vernon neighborhood on the night of Aug. 21 for a reported shooting.
Officers found a man, later identified as 34-year-old Arthur Coons, with a gunshot wound. Coons was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said there was a fight in the area just before the shooting.
Jones is currently in the Franklin County Jail where he was being held on weapon, assault and drug charges.
This is the 135th homicide of 2021 in Columbus.
