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Ohio Man Kills 7
Before Being Shot Dead by Cops
Published August 07, 2011
An Ohio man went on a shooting spree Sunday, killing seven people,
including an 11-year-old girl, before he was gunned down by responding
police. One victim was rushed to a nearby hospital.
The shooting occured in Copley Township, Ohio, a wooded, residential
neighborhood of older homes outside Akron. The gunman shot five people
in one location and two more nearby.
The scene appeared to be a chaotic one.
A neighbor, Gilbert Elie, tells The Associated Press he heard gunshots
Sunday morning. He went outside and found two neighbors who’d been shot
and a woman and girl in a vehicle who were wounded. Then Elie saw a man
shoot his girlfriend, and Elie ran for safety.
Linda McCrady told Fox 8 that the wife of one of the victims banged on
her door around 11 a.m., yelling “Help me! Help me! He’s killing
everyone! He killed my husband! I’m a widow!”
The Copley Police dispatch told Fox8.com that emergency calls from the
man’s girlfriend reported multiple people suffering gunshot wounds came
in around 11:15 a.m. The suspect was found by police at a home on
Schocalog Road, and opened fire on the responding officers. The police
returned fire and killed the man.
It was unclear what started the argument, and the relationship between
the victims and the shooter. The bodies of the victims were found in
four different locations along the street, Fox8.com reported.
Jeff Kirby, of nearby Norton, says he was visiting his mother’s home a
block from the shootings around 10:30 a.m. when he heard gunfire --
about 15 shots with several pauses between them.
Kirby, 53, said the last gunfire he heard occurred about the same time
he heard sirens in the neighborhood.
Copley police Sgt. Eric Goodwin said he did not know the conditions of
the wounded but said he believed there were no more victims.
“As far as I know, everyone’s accounted for,” he said.
Copley Township is a town of about 14,000 people outside Akron, about
40 miles south of Cleveland in northeast Ohio.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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