19-year-old charged with murder in fatal shooting at fitness club on Far West Side

Columbus homicide detectives have obtained an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old man on a murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting March 28 on the basketball court at Esporta Fitness club on the city's Far West Side.

Tae'von Amire Bush, 19, of the East Side, is accused by a city homicide detective in documents filed Tuesday in Franklin County Municipal Court of shooting 23-year-old Tabias Cunningham at about 8:45 p.m. following a basketball game at the fitness club at 1800 Tanglewood Park Boulevard near Hilliard.

Cunningham, who resided on the Far West Side, was transported to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He was pronounced dead at 9:37 p.m.

Bush, who was described in court documents as a 6-foot-3, 175-pound Black male with brown eyes and hair, was still at-large early Thursday afternoon.

According to court documents filed by Columbus police, Cunningham had just finished playing a pick-up basketball game on the court inside the fitness center when he was approached by Bush, who had played against Cunningham in a previous game and was waiting courtside.

A short argument occurred before Bush suddenly pulled a gun from his hoodie pocket and shot Cunningham multiple times, the court documents state.

Police have previously released photos and a video stating that they were looking for two unidentified men as "persons of interest" present during the shooting and whom police wanted to questioning about the incident. The men fled the fitness club along with members who had been working out before the shooting, and drove away in a white car, police said.

No mention was made of a second person in the court documents filed to obtain the arrest warrant. Bush's name "was developed" from witnesses during the investigation as the shooter, the documents state.

Esporta Fitness closed the basketball court in the wake of the shooting, and has repurposed the space for other fitness activities.

The Columbus homicide detective listed in the court filing couldn't be reached Wednesday, and the homicide unit declined comment on the warrant when contacted by The Dispatch.

Anyone with information about this or any homicide is asked to contact the Columbus police Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS.

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: 19-year-old wanted on murder charge in shooting after basketball game