Mysterious death

Man who was shot dies at hospital

By The Columbus Dispatch  • 

A man was shot on the South Side yesterday afternoon and died later at a hospital.

Columbus police were called about 1:20 p.m. to E. Livingston and Lilley avenues and found a man with gunshot wounds lying outside 883 Lilley Ave.

Paul C. Hollins, 47, died at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center. Detective Ronald Custer of the Columbus police homicide unit said Hollins did not live at the Lilley address. No further information about him was released.

People in the area heard shots before finding Hollins, but Custer said that police did not find any witnesses to the shooting. He said police had identified a possible suspect but had not made any arrests.