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Several Columbus high schools were locked down yesterday because of concerns about retaliatory gang violence after a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on the East Side.
Zyshonne Dupri Jenkins was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center after he was shot about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday at E. Livingston and Dellwood avenues, according to Columbus police homicide detectives. He died at Grant at 5:41 a.m.
A witness told police that Jenkins and another person exchanged gunfire. Police were told that the shooter might have run south on Courtright Road, although another person said in his call to 911 that a purple car had cut its lights and driven off as police approached.
I just saw the flashes, and then I saw the boy fall on the side of the street, said a male caller. It was a drive-by, I think.
That caller asked Jenkins his name and whether he knew who had shot him.
Oh man, he told the 911 call-taker, hes still moving, but he aint talking.
A second caller described what might have been a gunbattle, saying, I dont know if the lil boy shot and the guy shot back, I dont know.
Police said they found a gun at the scene.
Jenkins was attending an online school, but his home school was Northland, according to a Columbus school-district spokesman.
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No arrest in teens slaying that led to Columbus school lockdowns
