COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two men were charged after a father was shot while holding his 10-month-old child in the parking lot of a grocery store in Whitehall Sunday evening, police said.
At 5:35 p.m., officers with the Whitehall Division of Police responded to a report of shots fired near the Kroger Great Eastern complex at 850 South Hamilton Rd.
Arriving officers found the father at the scene who was shot in the nose. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Police said the child was not injured, though one of the shots narrowly missed her.
The father told the officers he was approached by two people, identified as Shyler Swank and Christopher Dumont. One of them was recording the incident on a phone while the other fired several shots at the father, according to police.
According to police records, the father told officers that the two men were harassing his family while they were in the store and the shooting happened when they got outside.
Records from Franklin County Municipal Court state that the father's fiancee, who is seven months pregnant, was standing six feet behind him when Swank allegedly fired the shots.
The father told police that he knew Swank and Dumont from the past but hadn’t seen them in several years.
Police said Swank and Dumont were taken into custody shortly after the shooting. Dumont was charged with three counts of complicity and Swank was charged with three counts of felonious assault.
Swank appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court on Tuesday. He was given a $800,000 bond.
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