Update: Police chief says only one of four homicides was stranger on stranger

Two of Columbus' recent homicides were drug-related, one resulted from a personal feud, and only in the fourth did the suspect and victim not know each other, Police Chief Ricky Boren said today.

In the fourth case, disc jockey and musician Heath Jackson fatally was shot when he found a burglar in his Carter Avenue home. Witnesses gave police a description of the killer, and about 3 a.m. this morning officers raided the home of suspect Ricardo Strozier, in the 200 block of 16th Street, Boren said.

There police found loot from what they believe to have been a string of burglaries in the area where Jackson fatally was shot about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators now are trying to determine where the goods came from, Boren said.

Columbus police have charged Strozier, 21, with murder in Jackson's shooting.

They've also arrested Marquise Roberts in the Monday slaying of Gerald Hatchett. Boren said Roberts was driving the car in which the man who shot Hatchett was riding. Police have identified the shooter and expect to arrest him soon, the chief said. Roberts, 21, was arrested early this morning and charged with murder and simple assault.

Boren said the first homicide, the fatal shooting of Brian Alexander Brown, 33, at Johnston Mill Lofts, was drug-related, as was the Monday night slaying of 18-year-old Hatchett in the East Highland area. Brown was shot through a door as he looked through a peep hole, the bullet striking him in the head, Boren said. He was pronounced dead at The Medical Center Friday morning. Police have not yet identified any suspects in that case.

About 10:45 Friday night, officers found Levy Lamont Daniel, 17, lying in the middle of Veterans Parkway near Booker T. Washington Apartments. Boren said Daniel was shot as the result of an ongoing "domestic" dispute. He was hit in the lower back, police said. Taken to The Medical Center, he was pronounced dead two minutes after midnight.

Boren said Daniel and Andrew Solomon Jr., 19, had an altercation earlier in the evening, when Daniel had pulled a gun on Solomon. Charged with murder, Solomon was arrested around 10 a.m. Tuesday near the site of the shooting, police said.

Jackson, 25, was shot in the back in his home at the corner of Carter Avenue and 17th Street. Boren warned residents that if they see evidence someone has forced entry into their homes, they should call 911 rather than investigate themselves.

Jackson's Carter Avenue home is just three blocks east of Columbus High School. The school was not put on lockdown because police didn't notify school security, said Valerie Fuller, the school district's director of communications. Police must notify a school before it can go on lockdown, in which visitors are not allowed into the school and students aren't allowed to leave.

Jackson's death has affected the school district. His mother is Allen Elementary principal Angi Idel and his brother, Hunter Jackson, is a teacher at Hardaway High. Jackson, a 2003 Hardaway graduate, was a radio disc jockey at WBOJ "The Truth" 88.5 FM.

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