Death by Cop- 2022
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Name Not Disclosed
Case # :1179
Gender : Male
Age : 17
Race : Unknown
Date : 08/28/2023
Location : : E. Main+Seymour Ave
City : Columbus
County : Franklin
State : Ohio
Agency : Columbus PD
Officer(s) :Joshua Ohlinger
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during traffic stop
Disposition : Cleared by DA
Open Records Summary :
Columbus PD made a traffic stop on a vehicle for undisclosed reasons. They allege that two teenage males exited the rear of the vehicle with guns. Police opened fire and killed a 17-year-old who remains unnamed.
The shooter officer who killed the boy, Officer Joshua Ohlinger, had previously shot someone else within a six-month period of this killing. Both victims were reportedly black men.
Officer Ohlinger’s first shooting victim was 66-year-old Michael Cleveland, shot and killed with 6 bullets for running away from a traffic stop, whose story is also linked below.
Ohlinger was once again cleared by the DA for this killing.