Police say 19-year-old Nachyla Halton was responsible for the May shooting death of another 19-year old woman in the Hilltop neighborhood.
Columbus police have charged a Cleveland-area woman with the fatal shooting of another woman earlier this year in the Hilltop neighborhood.
Nachyla Halton, 19, of South Euclid, has been charged with murder in the May 19 shooting death of 19-year-old Jazmine Chester, city homicide detectives said Monday. Halton is currently in custody in Cuyahoga County Jail on several weapons-related charges. Around 2:10 a.m. on May 19, detectives say Halton and Chester entered an apartment at the 3600 block of Briggs Road, detectives say in court records. Halton is seen entering the building with a bag. She exits the building alone over an hour later, again carrying a bag.Halton then got in her vehicle and left the apartment, detectives say in court records.
A missing persons report was filed, and Chester was discovered in her home, deceased from a gunshot wound to the face, detectives say. An investigation identified Halton as a suspect, detectives say. On Monday, she was interviewed in the Cuyahoga County Jail, where she has been held on unrelated misdemeanor firearms charges since her arrest in July.When asked what kind of car she owned in May, detectives say Halton ended the interview.
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