About 25 people gathered in the parking lot off North High Street near the Short North Church on Sunday morning where hours earlier Columbus police had been searching for clues in the shooting death of a man.

Kyshaun T. Brown, 27, who is homeless, was quickly arrested after the shooting incident, which occurred around 3:25 a.m. near the North Wall Street alley and North High Street parking lot, Columbus police said.

Brown is charged with murder in death of Dishawn T. Jones and is being held in the Franklin County jail.

He was identified by a witnesses as the shooter, Franklin County Municipal Court records show. A handgun, believed to the murder weapon, was found at the scene, and Brown also possessed the victim's identification when he was arrested, police said.

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Jones, 25, who lived in the Short North neighborhood, died from several gunshot wounds, Franklin County Municipal Court records said.

The incident led the Rev. Amy Aspey, pastor of Short North Church, to cancel the usual 10 a.m. service at Short North Church, which is located just southwest of 5th and High streets.

Instead, Aspey hosted a brief prayer and communion service around 10 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot. Church members and people in the community stood in a circle.

"We know that God is holding our brother now," Aspey said.

Aspey said the fatal shooting "doesn't make a whole lot of sense to us now."

She said that this incident underscores the need for community more than ever.

At the close of the prayer service, communion was served to all who wished to partake in the circle.

The Sunday morning homicide is the city's 46th of this year.

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