Columbus police shoot suspect with knife, 3 people stabbed in Far East

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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Columbus police have shot at least one person and at least three others are hospitalized after a stabbing Tuesday afternoon on the city's Far East Side.

Police responded around 2:55 p.m. to a stabbing in the 300 block of Hoskins Way.

Police radio communications indicate that when officers arrived, a man came out of a house with a knife. Columbus police reported shortly after that shots were fired by at least one officer, striking the suspect.

At least three other people who were allegedly injured by stab wounds were evacuated from the scene by paramedics.

Two of the injured went to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center downtown, and two were transported to Mount Carmel East Hospital.

Additional details were not immediately available from Columbus police.

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