“I didn't want to believe it. It took a minute just for it to register,” said Temika Dumas, Malyk’s mother.

Friday night, 19-year old Malyk Dumas was one of three teens shot while leaving the Linden-McKinley High School football game.

“I didn't want to believe it. It took a minute just for it to register,” Temika Dumas, Malyk’s mother, said.

Dumas says her son was walking home from the Linden-McKinley football game when he was shot from behind.



“He got a wound like right by his groin area,” Dumas said. “It's just like a big hole. It went straight through.”

The shooting did not happen on school grounds.

According to Columbus City School officials, there were at least four officers from the district’s safety and security teams, special duty Columbus Police officers, and school administrators and teachers on site during the game,

Temika Dumas says that isn’t enough oversight.

“More security, more authority figures. Period,” she said.



Columbus City School officials say officers do not check for weapons at high school games.

Although no weapons were found on the Linden-McKinley campus Friday night, Dumas hopes administrators will do more to protect school events from possible violence.



“They need detectors to go in there, because when they go to games there is no type of metal detectors so you can walk in with whatever you want,” Dumas said.



Columbus City School officials say Linden-McKinley’s campus is a safe with few problems.