Joseph Howard is the suspect in a double homicide. Joseph Howard, 19, is now in the Franklin County Jail. Police charged him with murder in a shooting that killed two women - one was Howard's sister - and injured one man at Double D's Pub in south Columbus on Sept. 14.Taya Mollette , and Tavia Copley, both 24, during an altercation at Double D's Pub on South High Street two weeks ago. The third person also was injured but was expected to recover.
Mollette, the mother of three young children, met her fiancée in the eighth grade, and they had been together for 11 years. She worked at Dan's Drive-In on South High Street as a server. The diner closed last week in her memory. Copley had a son who will turn two in January. She worked at The Cracker Barrel restaurant in Grove City, where relatives say she loved her job.