Monday, August 8, 2011

MICHAEL HANCE NAMED AS MURDERER OF 7 IN OHIO

UPDATE: Cops in Ohio have named Michael E. Hance, 51, as the twisted triggered man who blew away seven other people Sunday--including an 11-year-old boy.
According to CNN, Hance allegedly shot his girlfriend, Rebecca Dieter, 49, at their home before running through his Copley Township neighborhood and killing six other victims.
Police Chief Michael Mier said: "No words can adequately express the loss experienced by the families of the victims and the community at large." Dieter is the only victim who survived the shooting spree. After shooting Dieter, Hance shot
and killed Autumn Johnson, 16, and her grandparents, Russell Johnson, 67 and Gudrun Johnson, 64. Craig Dieter, 51 -- Rebecca's brother -- and an unidentified 16-year-old were also killed at the second crime scene. Hance then chased Bryan Johnson, 44 -- the father of Autumn Johnson -- northward, where he was shot to death in a nearby driveway. He then followed victim Craig Dieter's son, 11-year-old Scott Dieter, into a neighboring house where he was then shot and killed. MORE FROM CNN
EARLIER: A family argument ended with a deadly gun rampage that left eight-people dead, including an 11-year-old boy, cops say.
The crazed man gunned down his girlfriend, before running into an adjacent house where he blasted five other people.
As two more fled the scene he he chased them "through some backyards" in the small town of Copley, OH, hitting one.
Bob McCrady told WJW: "A neighbor of mine sat there riding a motorcycle and seen the guy chasing the little kid with the gun shooting and trying to kill him."
But he wasn't finished yet.
A police statement said: "The shooter then went to another home where two other persons he had chased sought refuge. He entered the home, shot one victim and exited the home."

At that point, a Copley police officer and a former officer who was in the area encountered the shooter who "engaged the officer and the citizen in gunfire and (the shooter) was shot and killed."
Only one person of the eight shot, survived the slaughter and they were hospitalized, although their condition remains unclear. 
Brenda McCrady told the station: "Somebody knocked on my door and a woman was at my porch, hiding on my porch."When McCrady opened the door, the woman ran inside and told McCrady, "somebody had shot her husband point blank in the head. ... And then she started screaming, 'My son, my son, my 11-year-old son.' "
Authorities said one victim was 11 years old.
Another neighbor said residents were shocked and baffled by the shooting and would likely never get a full explanation.
"The killer's gone. We'll never know," they said.

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