Police still investigating east Columbus homicide five years removed

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Five years after a murder on the East Side, police are still searching for leads.

On May 5, 2019, Columbus police received a 911 call, advising there was a body next to a fence in the alley behind the 1300 block of Gault Street, in the Driving Park neighborhood. Officers and Columbus Division of Fire personnel arrived to find Jayelin Wilson dead from a gunshot wound.

A preliminary investigation that Wilson, 23, was engaged in a gun battle with at least one other person.