A man was shot, and later died, when a gun went off in a Northeast Side apartment on Sunday afternoon, Columbus police said.

Kendall Daigle, 25, was shot at 12:21 p.m. while inside an apartment in the 2500 block of Brendel Road, police said.

Police have arrested Muhammed Loum, 20, and charged him with tampering with evidence because he removed the gun from the scene. The Franklin County Municipal Court complaint states that Loum took the weapon "with purpose to impair its availability as evidence" in a homicide investigation.

Loum was handing a loaded firearm to Daigle when it went off and shot Daigle, according to police.

Daigle was taken to the hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead shortly after that.

Police said this was the 81st homicide in Columbus this year.

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