Quote:Driver chases youths, fires shots after SUV is struck; no arrest yet
Police are searching for the driver of an SUV who chased and fatally shot a 14-year-old boy he thought had thrown an egg at his vehicle early yesterday.
Danny Crawford, of 3217 Valley View Dr., died of a single gunshot wound in the upper body, according to Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis.
Danny’s body was found in an alley behind 28 N. Terrace Ave., on the city’s West Side. The shooting took place about 12:30 a.m.
He died at the scene, Lewis said.
The eighth-grade student at Westmoor Middle School was with two other boys, one of whom threw an egg at an SUV on W. Broad Street, according to one of the boys, whose parents did not want his name used.
The boy said Danny did not throw the egg.
He said when the SUV stopped, he and Danny fled down an alley between N. Terrace Avenue and Eldon Avenue. The driver, he said, followed while the third boy ran in another direction.
The boy said the driver stopped the SUV, got out and began to run after them. The boy said while he ran through one back yard, Danny found himself trapped in the alley.
He said when he got to his house near Terrace Avenue, he heard six shots.
Danny’s house is about a mile from the alley where he was shot. A woman who answered the door at the house yesterday said Danny’s father did not want to comment.
Sgt. Dana Norman said the driver fled in the SUV. Police located the vehicle a short time later nearby on Burgess Avenue.
Norman said the SUV is registered to a Columbus resident.
Billy Hicks, who lives at 22 N. Terrace Ave., said he noticed several young people in a parking lot south of Broad Street, near the Hillcrest Baptist Church, about 12:30 a.m.
He said he then heard several shots fired in the alley behind his house.
"I ran out of my house and a neighbor said a kid had been shot," Hicks said.
He said police arrived almost immediately.
Duane Pritchett, who lives at 38 N. Terrace, said he heard the shots as well.
"I told my 8-year-old (son) to get down behind a metal desk because they sounded so close," he said.
It's a crying shame, but what the heck is a 14-year old doing out at 12:30am?!
Getting egged is no reason to shoot someone. That said, if you get into the habit of throwing eggs at people's cars at midnight, you are eventually going to get shot.
-b0b
(...sighs.)
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