Body camera footage released Tuesday by Columbus police shows the burst of gunfire officers exchanged with a man outside a pub on the Northeast Side.
The gunshots rang out intermittently outside of Joe's Pub & Grill on East Dublin Granville Road as Columbus police officers waited, guns drawn, attempting to locate the man who was firing them.
As Columbus police officers Evan Romine and Kenneth Sauer took cover together behind a cruiser, a nearby civilian sheltering with them can be heard saying:"That dude's probably about to die tonight."Police dispatchers had received three 911 calls around 12:30 a.m.
Sharpe, 39, has since been charged with three count of felonious assault for firing at three officers when they responded to the scene of the shooting outside the pub, which is located just west of Hamilton Road.Three Columbus officers identified who exchanged gunfire with Pataskala man, wounding him
As shots ring out sporadically, officers can be heard giving verbal commands to the man to put up his hands. Dash camera footage shows him falling to the ground and officers immediately approaching him. Body camera footage from Romine, who can be seen brandishing an assault rifle-type weapon, shows him kicking the gun away from the suspect, sending it sliding under a nearby car.
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