12-year-old shot outside complex on Ticknor Drive

The victim in Thursday’s shooting at a Ticknor Drive apartment complex has been identified as a 12-year-old girl, Columbus police said Friday.

The girl was treated at Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown campus for a non life-threatening gunshot wound to her left shoulder, said Police Maj. J.D. Hawk, head of the Investigative Services Bureau. The bullet went through her shoulder, leaving police with no information on the weapon fired.

Hawk said the girl was outside Camp Benning Apartments at 35 Ticknor Drive when three other people at the complex heard a gunshot about 4 p.m. as she turned the corner of the building.

“Nobody has seen nothing,” he said.

Detectives spent hours at the scene gathering information. Police sealed off the east corner of the apartment complex with yellow tape while the shooting was under investigation.

Hawk said the shooting remains under investigation and police haven’t identified a suspect in what may be an accidental shooting.

This story was originally published July 26, 2018 at 12:00 AM.