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Suspect charged in Columbus fatal shooting

A 30-year-old West Point man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fled the scene of a Sunday shooting.

WTVA-TV reports Columbus police initially responded to a vehicle accident just before 3:30 a.m. on June 9.

Upon arriving at the 1600 block of Highway 45 North, officers found 47-year-old John Easley in the passenger seat of a car with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest. […]