On Monday, 19 October, Columbus police responded to a report of a shooting on Albert Avenue, near the Alrahma Mosque in Columbus, Ohio. According to 10 WBNS, as cited by The Independent, the call came in at 2:10 pm. One person was pronounced dead at 2:19 pm. Officers also found a second victim, whose condition was not immediately known. Local media, citing police sources, reported at least one death and one other victim, but those early reports gave no details on how the shooting unfolded.
James Fuqua, a Columbus police official, told reporters that the shooting was not aimed at the mosque and stressed the point.
“This is not an attack on the mosque.”
Fuqua said police did not want to draw hasty conclusions, but he stressed that the gunfire had nothing to do with an attack on the mosque itself. Police described a dispute between several people of unknown cause inside a residential building. The area includes two-storey residential buildings alongside the place of worship. Italian outlet Open reported that an event was under way inside the mosque when the shooting took place.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said its Columbus Field Division special agents were responding to a reported shooting at a mosque in the 2200 block of Albert Avenue. Its local office posted that alert at 3:28 pm local time, and it said more information would be shared as it became available. The sequence of times reported so far runs from the initial call to the pronouncement of death and then to the federal alert.
The cause of the dispute and the condition of the second victim were not known in the early reports. The ATF has said further details will follow, but no source yet gives a fuller account of the events or of the people involved.
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Columbus police said on Monday, 19 October, that a shooting near the Alrahma Mosque was a dispute between several people in a residential building and was not directed at the place of worship.
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