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The Columbus Division of Police released body camera video on Monday showing a suspect and an officer exchanging gunfire over the weekend.

Columbus police said officers were called to the 600 block of Kingsford Road in the Hilltop neighborhood early Saturday morning for a report of shots fired.

Body camera footage from officer Payne Vantilburg shows him stepping out of the passenger side of a cruiser and speaking with a man, later identified as Lamar Blue.

When another officer asked Blue to take his hand out of his pocket, police say Blue pulled a shotgun out from behind his body and fired it toward the officers.

Vantilburg returned fire and struck Blue, who ran away.