The homicides occurred about one minute and 10 miles apart. One of the cases is being investigated as a suspected homicide-suicide.
Columbus police are investigating two separate deadly incidents that occurred at almost exactly the same time about 10 miles apart, including a suspected homicide-suicide.
At 9:41 p.m. Wednesday, officers were called to a home on the 2100 block of Rankin Avenue on the city's Northeast Side after a shooting was reported. A 36-year-old man was found inside a home with a gunshot wound and rushed to a nearby hospital. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, died at the hospital at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.About 60 seconds later and 10 miles away, at 9:42 p.m. Wednesday, Columbus police got a call from a concerned family member who said 55-year-old Edward Sluder had called them. The family member said Sluder had told them he had shot his wife, 57-year-old Marion Sluder, and was intending to take his own life.
Paramedics and police responded to the couple's home on the 3600 block of Parsons Avenue, on the South Side, and found the couple dead inside. The couple's death is being investigated as a homicide-suicide. The Sluders were married in 1998 and had lived in the Parsons Avenue home since 2018.
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