A teenager was shot and killed this week while attempting to rob a North Side man, Columbus police said Thursday.

The intended victim of the robbery also was shot.

The shooting was reported to police at 2:43 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment building on the 4900 block of North High Street.

Officers and paramedics arrived to find the suspected robber and a robbery victim both with gunshot wounds.

Police identified the suspect in a news release as Duvon Mathews, 17, of the Northeast Side. Mathews was shot multiple times.

The intended victim was identified as Matthew Martin, 21, of the North Side.

A neighborhood resident who called 911 told a dispatcher that he saw Mathews and two other males enter Martin's apartment and then heard several gunshots. The man told the dispatcher that he then saw several males run out of the apartment, and some of them got into a red car and left.

Mathews drove to Martin's North High Street apartment to rob him, according to a police report, and Martin and Mathews shot each other during the attempted robbery.

Paramedics took both men to Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. Mathews was pronounced dead at the hospital early Wednesday.

Martin was no longer in the hospital Thursday morning. A man who called 911 to report the shooting said it looked like as though his head had been grazed by a bullet.

Martin has not been charged in connection with the incident, court records show.

Mathew's death marks the city's 97th homicide this year.

The incident remains under investigation and anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call the Columbus Division of Police homicide unit at 614-645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477.

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