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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus Division of Police serviceman fired shots little than a mile distant from the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee, according to a section source, resulting successful 1 person's death.
Fraternal Order of Police President Brian Steel -- who supervises the lodge for cardinal Ohio -- confirmed that CPD officers were progressive successful the shooting Tuesday afternoon.
Local NBC affiliate WTMJ-TV specified 1 Columbus serviceman fired shots astatine a suspect. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office said an big antheral was changeable and killed, the Associated Press reported.
WTMJ-TV noted that the shooting happened astatine 14th and Vliet streets, wherever 2 men were warring with knives. The country is little than a mile distant from the Fiserv Forum, wherever the Republican National Convention is being held.
Steel confirmed that aggregate CPD officers were successful Milwaukee to assistance with lawsuit security.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson's main of staff, Jeff Fleming, said helium didn't cognize what led up to the shooting, though helium and Alexi Worley, a spokesperson successful the convention's associated bid center, said determination was thing to suggest the shooting was related to the normal itself, the AP reported.
No officers were wounded successful the shooting, Steel said. No bureau had released the individuality of the fishy arsenic of 3:20 p.m.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.