Five Summers of Gunfire on North High Street

Pique Media

Published September 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM UTC

Between July 2021 and August 2026, at least a dozen shootings left 39 people shot — three of them fatally — along a one-mile stretch of Columbus’s Short North, from Goodale Street to Fifth Avenue. Nearly all of them happened after dark, most in the hours after last call.