Victims in Wise Street double homicide identified, coroner officials say
Gunfire erupted Friday afternoon in the Oakland Park neighborhood of south Columbus leaving two men dead.
Officers responded to the 2400 block of Wise Street, several feet away from Key Elementary, around 4 P.M. on January 19, 2024. where they located two men, one in the yard of a residence and one in a vehicle parked alongside the street, suffering from gunshot wounds.
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan identified the men as 21-year-old Troyverion Williams and 34-year-old Theodore Alexander. Both were pronounced dead on scene at 4:36 P.M. An autopsy has been scheduled for both and both of their families have been notified.
This shooting has brought the total number of homicides for 2024 to four, and the total number of shooting victims to ten.
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