Columbus man wanted in July 2023 homicide apprehended in Alabama
A Columbus man wanted for a July 2023 homicide has been arrested in Alabama by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Clarence Ellis, 39, of the city's Woodward Park neighborhood, was arrested without incident Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Task Force in Dothan in southeast Alabama, about two hours from the state capital of Montgomery, according to an announcement from the U.S. Marshals office for the Southern District of Ohio. Ellis is currently being held at the Houston County jail in Alabama pending extradition to Columbus.
Ellis was charged on Dec. 28 in Franklin County Municipal Court with murder for the July 2023 shooting death of Derrius Morgan, 30, of Linden in the 2200 block of McGuffey Road, between East Maynard Avenue and Clinton Street.
On July 12, 2023, police responding to the scene of a reported shooting in South Linden found Morgan suffering from gunshot injuries. Medics rushed him in critical condition to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Downtown, where he later died.
Ellis is the second Columbus homicide suspect that U.S. Marshals have apprehended out of state within a week.
On Dec. 28, U.S. marshals apprehended 20-year-old Gabriel Hosings after he fled Columbus to West Virginia. Hosings is charged with murder in the Dec. 10, 2023, death of Shawn Overly, 34, also of Columbus, near an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Briggs Road.
Hosings was apprehended without incident in the town of Ghent, West Virginia, located approximately 73 miles south of the state capital in Charleston.
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