Nearly four years after the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Walter Benjamin Christopher, Columbus Police have arrested a suspect in the case.
On November 16, 2025, the department’s Special Operations Unit took 21-year-old Jy’Keiveous Jiles into custody in connection with the long-unsolved homicide.
The shooting happened on December 7, 2021, around 8:30 p.m. Officers were called to the MK Mart on Farr Road, where they found Christopher suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional and later died…