Murders in Columbus and Franklin County in May 2025

The murders in Columbus fell considerable figures in 2024, with the city recording a decline in murders by 17% last year. The trend moves further down.

Shipping follows all the murders to get a feeling for where violence in the city and Franklin County takes place, and to remember the victims of murders. This list is temporary, and the number of murders can change if law enforcement examines in any case and decides whether the murder was criminal, justified, random or the result of suicide.

Shipping excludes fatal overdoses, accidents, suicides and unintentional deaths. The information we put together comes from the law enforcement authorities of Columbus and Franklin County, court files and interviews with family and relatives of murder victims and can change.

Central -Ohio -mann, woman who is accused of defeating the death of a man in the municipality of Prairie

May 2, 2025: A man and a woman in Central -Ohio were charged with murder in connection with the death of a man who was not identified during a robbery on May 1st in the municipality of Prairie.

Anthony Kuhn and Nichole Adkins, both 42, look for themselves, according to Franklin County's municipal report. In addition to the murder system, Kuhn is also offset by a number of heavy robberies.

According to a criminal complaint, which was submitted by Detective at the Sheriff's Franklin County, a 911 caller reported that the victim is unconscious and possibly dead in the 6500 block of the Hall Road in Prairie Township. The caller told a dispatcher by Franklin County that he thinks the victim was attacked. Doctors arrived on site and declared the victim to be dead at 4:38 p.m., the complaint said. A detective who also reacted to the scene noticed that the victim had “considerable” head injuries, including an open skull fracture, “considerable” head injuries. According to the complaint, his right ear was almost separated from his head.

Other detectives arrived and interviewed three witnesses from whom Adkins was. One of the witnesses, a man who lives in the residence, said he left the house at 12.53 p.m. to take a roommate to the hospital. When he came back almost three hours later, he said that he searched the house with several objects. The witness informed the detectives that he called the Sheriff's office to report the crime and that he did not see the victim on site when he called the call.

Detective interviewed the second witness, who said that he was with Kuhn in his caravan, which was parked in the driveway of the Hall Road Residence, the complaint said. The witness stated that Adkins returned from work to the trailer around 12:30 p.m., then worked to the residence of the Hall Road at around 2 a.m., and Kuhn went to the residence a few minutes later. According to the witness, Kuhn returned to the trailer 30 minutes later and was “hectic” and said that he couldn't believe what he had just done “and that they had to go. According to the complaint, Kuhn never said what he was doing.

The witness informed the detectives that he, Adkins and Kuhn had left the trailer, and traveled to the Wedgewood Village Apartments to buy drugs. From there the trio went to a sewage pool, where Adkins allegedly threw away the wallet and the work hat of the victim. The three then drove to an apartment complex in the Fisher Road, where the witness said that Kuhn threw away the baseball cards of the victim and his medication bottles.

Detective later interviewed Adkins and confirmed a lot of the former witnesses in their statements to the detectives, as the complaint emerges. According to reports, Adkin's detective said that she heard an “excitement” in the house during her shower. When she left the bathroom, Adkins said that Kuhn was in the house and that someone was dead. According to Adkins, Kuhn had blood on his face and had a baseball bat. Adkins supposedly told the detective that Kuhn presented her the bat and told her she should be at the front door. When Kuhn stood at the door, she brought her from the house to hold her to keep her. Adkin's detective that Kuhn told her that he had to kill one of the witnesses to cover up the initial murder according to the complaint.

Adkins admitted that she thrown away the victim's wallet and worked in the sewer hat and that she and Kuhn threw the bottles away with medication, baseball cards and clothing that Kuhn wore when he robbed and attacked the victim. Detectives later picked up all objects, including Kuhn's clothing, which according to complaint had blood on it.

Detective interviewed Kuhn, who confirmed that they were in the trailer in the Hall Road and that they went to Wedgewood Village Apartments to buy drugs. Kuhn also told the detectives that he knew something had happened to the victim and asked Detectives whether he had died. When the detective said the victim died, Kuhn reported that he called his right to a lawyer, the complaint said.

Both Kuhn and Adkins are to appear in court on Saturday, May 3.

The Columbus police identified the alienated couple, man in double murder self-murder

May 1, 2025: The Columbus police identified two men and a woman who murdered a double murder and suicide on Thursday, May 1st, on the Southeast side of the city near Canal Winchester.

Aiden David, 19, Giannh Viars (21) and Michael Hughes, 23, were declared dead in an apartment complex in the 3000 block by Esquire Drive, the police from Columbus said in a press release. The police were called to the complex at 12:20 p.m. after a report on a shootout.

According to relatives who spoke to the police, the Viars and Hughes had been married, but were separated. In the meantime, the Viars and David had started to meet. The Viars and David were in the Viars' apartment when Hughes arrived and fired a shot into the apartment before he entered his way and David fatally shot, the police said.

Viars tried to escape, but Hughes shot her right on the door of the apartment, where she collapsed. Witnesses who spoke to the police said Hughes shot them again and killed them before turning the weapon on herself.

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Previous murder insurance: April 2025, March 2025, February 2025

Anyone who has information about a murder in Columbus. People with information about a murder district of Franklin County can contact the Franklin County's sheriff office on the number 614-525-3350. Franklin County Crime Stopper Anonymous accepts anonymous tips at 614-461 tips (8477).

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Central -Ohio -mann, woman who is accused of defeating the death of a man in the municipality of Prairie

The Columbus police identified the alienated couple, man in double murder self-murder

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