A Columbus man faces multiple felony charges after a missing child at the center of an overnight Amber Alert was found safe on the city’s Northeast Side.
Columbus police responded around 1:10 a.m. June 28 to a home on the 6200 block of Thornton Avenue, according to a news release. When officers arrived, they found two adults suffering from apparent cuts or stab wounds as the result of a domestic dispute and that a child had been taken from the home.
Authorities issued an Amber Alert around 3 a.m. for 1-year-old Milena Gebremeskel, according to the alert.
A Columbus police dispatcher told The Dispatch that the girl was found soon after in a Kohl’s parking lot on North Hamilton Road. She was found with Siem Gebremeskel, 24, her father and a suspect listed in the Amber Alert, whom police arrested.
Gebremeskel, of the city’s East Side, faces two counts of felonious assault and one count of kidnapping, according to Franklin County Municipal Court records. As of Saturday afternoon, he remained in the Franklin County jail without bond.
The two adults suffering from stab wounds were taken to a hospital and are expected to recover, according to the news release. A joint investigation between the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault units of the Columbus Division of Police remains ongoing.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
Higher education reporter Sheridan Hendrix can be reached at shendrix@dispatch.com and on Signal at @sheridan.120. You can follow her on Instagram at @sheridanwrites.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus father charged with kidnapping after missing Amber Alert child found safe
Reporting by Sheridan Hendrix, Columbus Dispatch / The Columbus Dispatch
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