Reward offered for information about 2005 homicide that resulted from gang shootout

Bethany Bruner, The Columbus Dispatch
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Central Ohio Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information about a 2005 Columbus homicide resulting from a gang shooting, hoping to provide closure to the victim's family.

Tyrun Malik Hill, of Reynoldsburg, was fatally shot on the day he turned 29 years old.

Around 2:30 a.m. on May 1, 2005, Hill and a friend left the Studio 69 Club on Sinclair Road on the city's North Side.

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The two had been part of a group of 15 to 20 carloads of people who left the club and went to a BP station on the 900 block of Morse Road.

Several people began firing guns in the parking lot at the station, and Hill was found shot behind the wheel of his car. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Columbus police homicide detectives believe Hill was caught in a shootout between members of the Short North Posse and the rival D Block gang in South Linden.

In 2016, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney David DeVillers said Hill had connections to the Short North Posse, but was not a part of their violent activities.

"He grew up with them, he knew them, was friends with them, sold drugs with them," DeVillers said. "He was against the killings; he was known as a voice of reason."

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Hill, who went by "T-Bone" and "Big Guy," was an "OG," or "original gangster," respected by younger members, DeVillers said. He added that Hill's "peacemaker instinct" could have contributed to his death.

Hill had graduated from Northland High School and worked at Honda. He was survived by three children, as well as his mother and other relatives.

Hill's family is hoping that someone will come forward to provide information to the Columbus police Cold Case Homicide unit, which continues to investigate the shooting, so that they might find closure through justice.

Anyone with information is asked to call Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS, use the free P3 Tips mobile application or provide tips online at www.stopcrime.org.

All tips to Crime Stoppers are anonymous and a special coding system is used to provide the reward.

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