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Police: 2 shot at New Year's Eve party in southeast Columbus Columbus police say two people were shot at a New Year's event on South Hamilton Road.

Columbus woman arrested in connection with death of 3-year-old daughter A Columbus mother was charged with murder after allegedly killing her 3-year-old daughter on New Year's Eve in a case linked to domestic violence.

Two dead bodies found in north Columbus, police investigating Columbus police are conducting an investigation after a dead body was reported Tuesday morning in north Columbus.

Ledell Lee never stopped saying it — “I am an innocent man.”

Conv!cted for a 1993 cr!me and exec*ted in Arkansas in 2017, Lee went to his death maintaining that he did not do it. His lawyers pleaded for DNA testing on the evidence before the exec*tion, but the request was denied — the state was rushing to carry out exec*tions before their lethal injection dr*gs expired.

Four years later, that testing was finally done. The results changed everything.

The DNA found on the blo*dy wooden club, the supposed murd*r weapon, wasn’t his. It belonged to an unknown man — the same unidentified DNA was also found on a blo*dy shirt wrapped around the we*pon. Even the hair samples from the scene didn’t match Lee.

His lawyers and the Innocence Project now hold the evidence that could have spared his life, but it arrived too late. The unknown DNA profile sits in a national database, waiting for a match that may never come.

Some officials still defend the conv!ction, citing eyewitnesses. But there was no physical evidence linking Lee to the cr!me — and the evidence that was tested proved it wasn’t his.

We can’t bring him back. But we can confront the question that remains: when a human life hangs in the balance, isn’t the truth worth waiting for?