In the early hours of July 5, 2025, 32-year-old Shaunquan Walker—a male, identified publicly after next of kin were notified—was shot at a Sunoco gas station on West Broad Street in Columbus’s Franklinton neighborhood. Officers responded just after 1:30 a.m., and Walker was rushed to Grant Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead around 2:06 a.m.
He was described in initial reports as a man fatally wounded by gunfire at the station just east of Interstate 70, and the homicide investigation began as detectives sought leads from the scene and nearby surveillance.
As detectives worked through the weekend, an arrest followed within days. On July 9, 2025, Columbus police announced that 18-year-old Keyshaun Harper had been taken into custody by a SWAT unit and charged with murder in connection with Walker’s killing. According to court documents described in local coverage, surveillance video captured an interaction between Walker and Harper; as Walker turned and began to walk away, he was shot multiple times in the back. The arrest and charging details, including the reported timeline of the shooting at approximately 1:31 a.m., were laid out by reporters citing those filings.
The initial days after the shooting were marked by pleas for tips from anyone who had been near the station or traveling the stretch of West Broad in the overnight hours. Those calls for information came alongside the public identification of Walker and the confirmation of his death from gunshot wounds shortly after 2 a.m., details that helped set the narrow window in which the fatal encounter unfolded.
Public records associated with the victim list his age as 32; available local reporting identifies him as male. When it became public that a suspect had been arrested and charged, attention shifted to the court process and to what the surveillance footage might reveal about motive and the seconds that preceded the gunfire. With Harper in custody and facing a murder charge, the case moved from the chaotic scene at the gas station into the methodical cadence of hearings and filings, but its beginnings remain defined by that brief, late-night encounter and a rapid cascade of emergency calls, hospital efforts, and a name released to a city waking up to yet another act of violence.
