Columbus 16-year-old dies after shooting, coroner says

A Columbus teenager died after being shot Wednesday, the coroner said.

Da’Marcus Faison, 16, was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound at 6:27 p.m. at the Piedmont Columbus Regional emergency room, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said Wednesday night.

Columbus police said Thursday that patrol officers were called to the shooting at 3:56 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of Mt. Pleasant Road, where they found Faison lying in a front yard as a citizen performed CPR on him, before an ambulance rushed him to the hospital.

Mt. Pleasant Road is off Steam Mill Road on the city’s east side.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Cpl. Adam Moyer at 706-225-4435 or amoyer@columbusga.org, or call the homicide unit at 706-225-3161.

Faison’s death marks the city’s fourth homicide so far this year, according to the Ledger-Enquirer’s count.

This story was originally published February 15, 2023 at 8:35 PM.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.