Student Robbed by Craigslist Seller: “They Just Started Shooting Out of Nowhere”

By Beth Baumann

At approximately 7:45 p.m. Tuesday night, a Miami University student in Oxford, OH met a man to purchase a car he found on Craigslist. The student, Volodymyr Kovalenko, 23, said he agreed to the seller’s price of $4,000 and arranged to meet him at a friend’s apartment.

Anyone wanna take a shot at guessing what happened next?

Kovalenko’s and his friend, Jared Goldhamer, 20, were at the apartment with another roommate when the seller and his accomplice arrived, and said the seller appeared “jittery and paranoid” as he entered the apartment.

As soon as Kovalenko handed the man the money for the car, the seller pulled out a gun and fired three rounds, hitting both Kovalenko and Goldhamer, before taking the money and fleeing the scene.

One of Goldhamer’s roommates, Brett Balick, called 911 and informed the dispatcher, “Someone just came into my house and shot my friend in the leg! There’s blood all over my floor. He’s losing a lot of blood.”

Both students were taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. Goldhamer was released Wednesday and Kovalenko remains in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

After the shooting, Goldhamer told his father, “It was the strangest thing, they just started shooting out of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms