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A Columbus man was shot multiple times late Saturday night May 17, ultimately succumbing to his wounds at the Columbus Community Hospital shortly after.
37-year-old Mitchell Levard Austin was found by Columbus Police Department officers who were responding to a call about gunshots being fired on 1100 Walnut St at 11:30 p.m. that evening.
Officers located Austin at the scene and determined that he had been shot multiple times by an unknown suspect or suspects.
Colorado County EMS arrived on scene and took Austin to the Columbus Community Hospital, where he died as a result of his wounds.
In connection with the killing, Columbus P.D. obtained an arrest warrant for 18-year-old Columbus man Jose Raul Quezada III for the offense of murder. Detectives from the agency contacted investigators with the Colorado County Sherriff's Office, who relayed the information to the Gulf Coast Fugitive Task Force.
On Monday morning, May 19 at around 11 a.m., the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force tracked Quezada to a hotel in Houston and arrested him without any incidents.
All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
