COLUMBUS — One person was critically injured in an assault on a bus in Columbus on Wednesday evening.
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The Columbus Division of Police was called to respond to a reported fight on a Central Ohio Transit Authority bus around 5:40 p.m. in east Columbus, according to our news partners at WBNS.
When officers got to the scene, they found an adult victim who another passenger allegedly assaulted.
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The victim was taken to a Columbus hospital with critical injuries.
WBNS reported that due to the severe nature of the victim’s injuries, the department’s homicide unit is investigating the assault.
Police said the suspect, 54-year-old Robert Salley, and the victim knew each other.
Salley was taken into custody near where the alleged assault happened. He was booked into the Franklin County Jail on a felonious assault charge.
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