Man fatally shot during fight at Columbus residence

Witnesses reported hearing an argument

1/21/2013
ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS — Police in Columbus are investigating a fatal shooting on the city's south side.

It happened Sunday afternoon. Police say officers responding to a reported shooting at a residence on Linwood Avenue found a man on the porch with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The man's name has not been released. Investigators believe he was shot during a fight with at his apartment.

Police tell the Columbus Dispatch witnesses reported hearing an argument, and three men were seen leaving.

No one has been arrested.

It's the city's fifth homicide this year.