Early-morning argument on Columbus' North Side ends with 21-year-old man shot dead

Danae King, The Columbus Dispatch
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Two people were killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon on Columbus' near east side.

A 22-year-old Columbus man faces a murder charge in connection to a shooting that killed another man early Saturday morning on the city's North Side.

Responding to several 911 calls reporting a shooting, police found James Shearer, 21, around 4:50 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Ninth Street suffering from a gunshot wound, according to the Columbus Division of Police. Authorities pronounced him dead at the scene.

As officers arrived at the scene, a vehicle was leaving and crashed into parked cars and a fire hydrant, according to police. Both occupants of the vehicle then started running, and police caught them.

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Investigators later determined the driver of the vehicle, Nicholas Kesterson, 22, of the West Side, had been arguing with Shearer. They accuse Kesterson of getting out a handgun, shooting Shearer and then leaving the scene with an unidentified male.

Police ask that anyone with information about the shooting call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus man charged with murder after shooting on city's North Side