Columbus police say no charges have been filed in a Friday night shooting on the North Side that left a 49-year-old man dead. The shooter said he fired in self-defense. Police responded to a call of shots fired in the area of Cleveland Avenue and E. Dublin-Granville Road just after 11 p.m.

Columbus police say no charges have been filed in a Friday night shooting on the North Side that left a 49-year-old man dead. The shooter said he fired in self-defense.

Police responded to a call of shots fired in the area of Cleveland Avenue and E. Dublin-Granville Road just after 11 p.m.

They found a wounded Brent A. Patterson, 49, in front of a strip mall at 5650 Kathy Run Lane. Public records show Patterson�s last address on State Street in Westerville.

He was taken to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital and died a short time later.

Columbus homicide detectives said that Paul V. Dixon II, 38, admitted to shooting Patterson but said it was in self-defense. Police said Dixon cooperated with authorities.

Public records show that Dixon lives a couple of miles from the scene of the shooting.

No other information about the circumstances was available yesterday, and police said the investigation continues.

It was the city�s 79th homicide this year.

Anyone with information is asked to call Columbus police homicide at 614-645-4730 or Crime Stoppers at 614-645-TIPS (8477).

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