The Columbus Dispatch
A ballistics match helped Columbus police identify the 28-year-old South Linden man suspected of fatally shooting a 31-year-old mother of five in July 2021.
Terell Stokes was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in connection with the July 16, 2021, death of 31-year-old Superia Wilson.
Columbus police found Wilson shot inside a home on the 2000 block of Grasmere Avenue in South Linden after receiving a ShotSpotter alert about gunfire in the area.
Witnesses told police that Wilson and her boyfriend were near the front porch area of the home when they noticed a car parked in the street. Three people got out of that car and began firing at the couple, striking Wilson.
Paramedics rushed Wilson to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, but she died from her injuries.
Court records show police collected shell casings from the shooting scene and there was a ballistics match between those shell casings and a gun Stokes had when he was arrested in September 2021 on unrelated charges. The ballistics match came from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ballistics technology.
Court records indicate the firearm had been bought by Stokes, legally, in December 2019. For reasons that are not clear in the court records, Columbus police had possession of the firearm in their property room and Stokes was able to pick the firearm up in June 2021, weeks before the fatal shooting took place.
Stokes is scheduled to have an initial hearing Friday morning in Franklin County Municipal Court.
