Detectives investigating three separate Columbus-area homicides Sunday
Detectives are investigating three separate Columbus-area homicides which occurred in less than nine hours Sunday, including one in a school parking lot and another near a restaurant that recently shut down due to gun violence.
Around 4:50 a.m. Sunday, Columbus police were called to the Columbus Square Shopping Center, located in the 5700 block of Cleveland Avenue on the city's Northeast Side.
Fidel Corral, 42, of the Franklinton area, was found shot in the parking lot of the shopping center, police said. He was taken to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, where he died at 7:06 a.m. Sunday, police said.
Columbus police SWAT officers were called to the scene to clear out Sunset Palace Banquet Hall at the shopping center.
Police have not released any further information about the shooting, including any motive or possible suspects.
The shooting took place across the street from a now-closed Rooster's restaurant that was the site of two shootings this year, one a homicide in February and one in April in which a waitress was wounded when multiple gun shots were fired through a front window.
More: Roosters permanently closes location at 161 and Cleveland Avenue after shootings
Drive-by shooting kills man on bicycle
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, the Franklin County Sheriff's office was called to shooting that occurred in the Lincoln Village neighborhood in Prairie Township in western Franklin County.
Chief Deputy Rick Minerd said deputies responding to a housing complex on the 4900 block of Earlham Way found the victim, 30-year-old Roger Bernal, of the Far West Side.
Minerd said Bernal was riding a bike in the complex when a vehicle drove up alongside him and fired multiple shots. Bernal ran to a nearby apartment and collapsed. He later died at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.
Minerd said deputies have been interviewing Bernal's friends and family and are investigating several possible leads.
Shooting victim found at school
Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Columbus police were called about a man who was found shot inside a vehicle outside the Hamilton STEM Academy, located at 2047 Hamilton Ave., in South Linden.
A passerby spotted the victim and called police. The victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had not been identified by city homicide detectives as of early afternoon Monday pending confirmation of identity and notification of family.
No other information about that shooting, including any possible motive or suspects, was released by detectives.
Anyone with information on any of the homicides is asked to call Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS. All tips to Crime Stopper are anonymous.
Dispatch reporter Bethany Bruner contributed to this story.
Cole Behrens is a reporter at The Columbus Dispatch covering public safety and breaking news. You can reach him at CBehrens@dispatch.com or find him on Twitter at @Colebehr_report
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