21-year-old man found deceased from gunshot wounds inside Benning Hills Park in Columbus
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An infamous park in the Benning Hills area is the center of another crime scene.
Columbus Police and Columbus Department of Fire and EMS were dispatched around 7:00 P.M. Wednesday evening for reports of a deceased body. Emergency responders arrived on scene and discovered the body of an African American male lying inside the Benning Hills park at Lafayette Drive and Patton Drive.
Muscogee County Deputy Coroner Elizabeth Allison was summoned to the scene and pronounced the male deceased at 7:30P.M. Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were called to the scene and immediately began investigating the death and remained on scene flashing their lights and marking evidence.
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan confirmed the person was identified as 21-year-old Joshua Sanford who had died from injuries related to a shooting. Sanford’s family was notified.
The Benning Hills intersection – Lafayette Drive and Patton Drive – has been the center of crime scenes since July 8th of 2020. July 8th, 2020 was the night Deondray Lamar Williams was found deceased with multiple gunshot wounds. A person was then shot on June 20th, 2021 on Patton Drive. Months after that, authorities responded to a shooting on February 12th, 2022 at the park where they found 22-year-old Brianna Robinson deceased from gunshot wounds and 19-year-old Ryan Krobetzky injured.
You can anonymously provide information on any crime by calling 706-653-3188.
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