Shooting Rampage Leaves Eight Dead, Including Gunman, in Ohio Neighborhood
- Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:12pm by
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Bambi Lynn of Fairlawn, Ohio, wipes away tears during a prayer vigil at Copley Community Park in Copley Township, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A man gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said. Lynn is fearful that one of the victims is a co-worker. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
COPLEY, Ohio (AP) — A man apparently angry with his girlfriend gunned down two people outside a home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then chased down another victim in a shooting rampage that left eight dead, including the gunman who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said.
Two others were wounded. A child was among those shot, witnesses said, though police wouldn’t confirm that. The gunman killed seven people in three places and was shot elsewhere, Copley police Chief Michael Mier said.
A neighbor, Gilbert Elie, was getting ready for church when he heard gunshots. He went outside and found a woman in a driveway who’d been shot and a man shot near a garage, and a woman and girl in a vehicle who were wounded, he told The Associated Press. Then a woman came out of the house next door and tried to talk to Elie, he said, but her boyfriend followed and shot her. Elie ran for safety behind a truck and didn’t see what happened next.
The names and ages of the victims and the gunman weren’t being released until police could tell family members, some of whom are out of state, said police Sgt. Eric Goodwin.
Anthony Johnson, foreground, a Copley Twp. resident walks with Copley policeman Bill Monza to check an unlocked motorhome on Johnson's property near a multiple death shooting in Copley Twp. a suburb of Akron, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7. 2011 Copley policeman Matt Lynch stands in the background. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
The son of one victim said a child was among those shot and that the argument started between the gunman and his girlfriend, according to neighbor Kim Dietz. The gunman chased the son, who escaped by wading through a swamp and made his way to Dietz’s home, she told the Plain-Dealer of Cleveland.
Goodwin did not know the conditions of the wounded. Investigators were “still putting things together” as they work the crime scenes, he said.
He gave no more details, including how the shooter and victims were related, their names or what led to the argument.
“That’s still under investigation,” he said.
Jeff Kirby of nearby Norton said 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.
Several hundred people attend a prayer vigil, following a multiple death shooting in Copley Twp. a suburb of Akron, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7. 2011. A man apparently angry with his girlfriend gunned down two people outside an Ohio home in Copley Twp., Sunday, and two more in a car, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
The neighborhood remained blocked off by police Sunday.
Copley Township is a town of about 14,000 people outside Akron, about 40 miles (64.37 kilometers) south of Cleveland in northeast Ohio.
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Comments (63)
LadyIzShy
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:17amsad, sounds like he was mentally ill. im betting the gun wasnt legally registered to him.. prayers for the families of the victems
Report Post »TAXLORDCOMETH
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:10amAnother Monarch mind-controlled assassin. When the majority of people wake up and realize these are not just lone nutters acting alone, there will be a terrible price to pay for the perpetrators of this evil.
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:15amWho cares about the gun?
Report Post »Tree
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 5:14pmLike it’s been said, the gun doesn’t matter. A man killed several innocent unarmed people. Had this happened in a neighborhood with lots of law-abiding gun-toting citizens, the body count COULD have been fewer, and the police would be there just in time to clean up the remains of the gunman. Taking guns away will not stop violence, but when more people have them, acts of violence will be shorter.
Report Post »Sniper48
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:31amI really suspect that this whole thing was staged (including those who died) to push the agenda of gun grabbing. Obama has been told by his Saudi handlers that the American population is to be disarmed so that they can’t resist the takeover which is rapidly coming. I remember as a kid you‘d see a man walking along with a rifle in his hand and you’d think, “He must be going hunting or just spend the day plinking at some beer cans”. Now we’ve all been programmed to call 911 and to get excited about a man who is still probably going hunting or plinking. All this is leading up to the big ‘gun grab’ which will reflect exactly the way Hitler and Stalin disarmed the public and then these people could not inconvenience the regime by resisting. Obama admits that he HATES America and that the “First lady” is a racist! The Obamas are relying on political correctness to cover-up and distract us from the truth. Now they will stop at nothing to program your neighbors into telling the police that you own a gun. If someone runs down and kills a group of people with a car, would the regime try to take away everyone’s car? No! That isn’t their goal. You will need that car to go make the $100,000 which every American household must pay to repay that which Obama has spent to buy votes and to program your neighbors to turn you in to the cops.
Report Post »RestoreTruth
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:14amWake up, please. This really happened! Just do the right thing and pray for the friends and family of these victims!!
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:18amIdiots like you should be CNN every day so Americans can see the real tea party.
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:20amSniper48 Troll, anyone with your sophomoric anti gun rhetoric diguised as pro gun rhetoric needs to go back to liberal boot camp. Ask Soros or th DNC to fund this for you. I am sure they will.
Report Post »GiGi80
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:30amWow. Just, wow.
And to those of you who claim every nutjob who posts comments like this is a “lefty plant”: use some common sense. The are extremist wackos on every part of the political and social spectrum.
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:39amLefty plants are everywhere, beware Blazers………………
Report Post »beartooth_bee
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:37amHello ,is anyone there. This could be mis construded as just hatred but i say if this country doesn’t wake up there is more of this to come. Mainly the unemployed people of this country are feeling the negitive effects of NO MORE MONEY.No jobs.No house. No honey. No food .No clothes for the family. And the criminals have no one too rob because the middle class is tapped out. And the list goes on. This is scary folks.The GOV has made addicts of all their sheeple.Look out elite’s, you’re on the top of the totem pole.
Report Post »Saved777
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 5:54amYou just described “hopelessness” a condition that can only be cured with a spiritual relationship with God, But We are slowly removing him out of society. People will have no where to turn and nothing to look forward to. Scientist shouldn‘t be so stuck on proving he doesn’t exists, because if they do, This country will be incomplete chaos. I can’t seem to convince the Atheist that their agenda will back fire. Religion builds a conscience and can transform an unstable person…I know, I’m one of them.
Report Post »NealPatrick
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:36amExcept for this “A man apparently angry with his girlfriend ”, which does not sound economic related.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:19amAh yes it wont be long before all the left wing mouth pieces will be doing story’s on the lame stream media telling all the sheepall how bad guns are and how much safer we all will be if we just let the government take them all, you know for our safety , ya right .The winds of change are a blowing in this country and the time is soon coming for each and everyone of us to make up our mind what side your going to be standing on, the side with the fighters fighting to save this country or on the side with the get along, go along,lets all hold hands and love everybody crowd. I think you can tell by my name what side i will be standing on.
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:42amoh mean ohio, the same state with the rampaging cop ohio, the same ohio cops who violated law abiding citizens rights to own a gun in case of these kind of crimes, ohio. geee I wonder where that moron was when this happened, wonder how lives could of been saved if just one of these victims had a real way to defend themselves, without worry of police harrassment.
Report Post »elmster
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:41amI was thinking the same thing had he done that in maine the person that walked outside when he heard the shot would have put him down like the wild dog he was acting like.
Report Post »Wes Hardin
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:39amHis girlfriend had more faith in his mental stability than he did. Let this be a lesson. Don’t aggravate people. Chances are they are crazy (about 26% of Americans are nuts).
Report Post »Ranchopower
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:38amGun Permit holder would be arrested and convicted for killing or wounding the gunman or be charged for working with the gunman.
Report Post »It is like a mother slapping and yelling at her kid in public, mostly goes ignored, the Mother may sue you for harrasment.
Just like the thief that gets hurt in the house he robs, and wins a lawsuit!
cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:33amthis is the state of our society,,,,the democrats wet dream come true
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:18ama world full of frustrated people, brought up in a system that sets no bounds, establishes no definitive standards of right, or wrong, and taught in school that preaches gay history, and the values of socialism, but never respect for others, manners, and most of all, honor… then turned loose among millions of other people with the same defects in their character.
Just what do you expect would happen?
Report Post »jim
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:10amPeople are stretched to their limits, unemployed, no prospects, a government out of control taking our freedoms one by one… bankrupting us, dividing us along racial, religious and political lines… these times foster such acts of desperate, irrational violence, when so many are at the tipping point. We often take for granted how screwed up these times we are in actually are… and how they contribute to our family relationships and emotional states. This whole thing is tragic, but becoming more common place.
Report Post »william.wadsworth
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:49amThe 11-year old boy and his family went to my church. Truly awful.
Report Post »RestoreTruth
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:16amMany prayers are for all those who died and their families and friends!
Report Post »powedj
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:46amIt was Sara Palin’s fault. Crosshairs and such.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:28amPeople allowed to carry guns have saved 3 million lives in america! Obama says the stimulus saved 3 million jobs. There is no way to prove either one,so lets use the same arguement for americans to carry guns for everyones protection. Liberalism will get you killed!
Report Post »I Fly Low
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:23amGuess it was W’s fault again.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:27amNo…the Liberals have moved on…EVERYTHING is the Tea Party’s fault now.
Report Post »ilikefood
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:14amMay God welcome the souls of the dead into the kingdom of Heaven and may He console and comfort there families.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:35amThis country has not seen anything yet, Rodney King times 100 is coming. The blaze will not post a story on GE moving jobs to China, weird? Or Larry Sinclair even more strange? The game is to distract.
Report Post »Cyhort
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:10amWow, my boyfriend lives right by there in Akron. I’m glad the police killed the bastard before he could take his psycho rampage on the road.
Report Post »Alan
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:06amStronge’s posting comes across just like a lefty pretending to be a conservative. As to the guy doing the shooting, I’ve no idea about him or his motivations. Sure doesn’t make sense. Now if he’d started by shooting himself first, it would have saved everyone a ton of misery.
Report Post »stumblemouth
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:06amFast and Furious, monitoring gun shops in the Southwest; two connected examples of the Obama idiots looking for manufactured crises to impose gun control. I’m sure that this will be another log on the fire the stooges are already building under the Constitution. Their bumbling manipulation led to the death of a Border Patrol agent and scores of Mexicans. Trying to further subvert the Second Amendment will leads to the deaths of scores of Americans. Not that they care. Ideology trumps sense.
Report Post »Stronge
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:47pmInfernal violent Muslims. I assume he was a Muslim, right? Or if not then his skin must have been darker than mine. Animals, the lot of them. Sub-humans. They should be sent back to… wherever they came from. Even if they were born here.
Am I right?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:03amNo.
It’s the character not the externals that matter.
Lord, have mercy on us, on our society. Lead us back to Your right paths.
Report Post »naed5048
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:09amI can safely say that this person didn’t have a concealed licence. so, he would of been carryinh unlawfull.
Report Post »Brad
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:13amNice try Liberal Stronge… You’re not right…You’re an idiot. I would think the shooter was more than likely somebody who voted for Obama.
Report Post »Stronge
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:31amYou got me. Shame so many of your fellow posters here seem to lack your morality.
Report Post »eaterofdead
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:58amtroll
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:43pmPlease don’t let your responses be about why we need more gun laws. This is also not a second admendment rights issue. This was about a troubled man and the reason he did this dastardly crime should be pursued. It seems that not too long ago disturbed people would just go out and kill themselves only. We didn’t have these mass murdering crimes 40 and 50 years ago. Something in society has caused this.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:25amYes, we did have the same cind of mass murder 40 or 50 years ago. Get your head out of the tea
Report Post »normbal
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:37pmWhen guns are outlawed, weapon substitution will lead to firebombing, suicide bombing, and other acts of violence leading to greater death and destruction; so much so we’ll wish we still had guns for protection.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:29amHere in the NY/NJ Metro Area violent, psychotic, criminal gene bearing individuals released from prisons & mental hospitals at the behest of Liberal do-gooders have attacked law abiding citizens on the streets. Repeatedly people walking on busy midtown NYC sidewalks have been struck in the head by cobblestone wielding crack addicts & mental patients. Innocent commuters have been pushed off subway platforms in front of approaching trains & died as a result of their injuries. In a Hasidic section of Brooklyn another mentally ill criminal released from jail by a Liberal judge would leap from the shadows striking pedestrians with a claw hammer, he was later shot after approaching police & refusing to drop the hammer, his family is now suing the NYPD.
One need only know of The Wildman of 96th Street the infamous Larry Hogue (a *****) who attacked residents on NYC‘s Upper Eastside in the 80’s-90′s terrorizing an entire neighborhood for over a decade in a crack induced mania until his death. As one might surmise a large percentage of these heinous acts were committed by those of “color” (Blacks) incapable of conforming to civilized society and it morals/laws. The fact is some “entities” are uncontrolable just look at the Central Park jogger who was raped & beaten over the head with melon sized rocks suffering permanent brain damage the attack a “wilding spree” was committed by a gang of Black youth who ALL have been convicted of subsequent crimes following their release
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:10amThere is no need for limiting or prohibiting law abiding American CITIZENS from owning firearms to protect themselves and their families as my post above illustrates when unable to obtain a firearm/weapon the criminal element present in our communities will use ANYTHING readily available a bottle, metal bar/pipe, bat, knife, street sign post, block of concrete, brick, or cobblestone to assault, injure, and/or kill their intended target/victim.
We as a society MUST demand the RIGHT to carry weapons in public it WILL reduce the crime rate drastically when the perpetrators see that we are no longer defenseless. Since the implementation of “Castle Law” and the right to defend oneself when threatened verbally with bodily harm in the great State of Florida shootings have taken place and the perpetrators are routinely killed by law abiding American CITIZENS exercising their rights. In fact home invasions are common, individuals in the Black community envious of Whites and their hard-earned possessions see us are easy targets and are now finding themselves staring down the barrel of a LEGALLY owned firearm. In one case a career criminal & drug addict decided to rob his own fathers home coming in through the window late at night, he had been warned that he would be trespassing & the consequences, the father tired of being the victim shot his son dead before he fully entered the home, no charges were filed. Stand up, defend yourselves & your loved ones !
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:31pmLet me start by saying this is a damn shame… My heart goes out to the families of the victims of this crime.
but hey, quick Obama, and the left… Call for a seize of the legally possessed arms of all of America’s law abiding citizenry.. This kinda crap is what pushes the left wing nut-jobs to try to seize all of our guns.. I wish people would knock it off with this junk. Guns are a right that will become an extinct privilege if this keeps up.
Guns are not dangerous… Bullets are not dangerous… Fully automatic machine guns are not dangerous… grenades are not dangerous.. its the people who wield them that are dangerous… Weapons are merely tools.. If you ban guns, not only will only criminals have the only guns (leaving the citizenry pretty much defenseless) but then people will just use a different means to do their mis-deeds.. Guns are just the current/convenient method of murder.. Swords, knives and explosives are quite messy and can be traumatizing mentally to the user, guns are quite a bit cleaner in that regard, and a lot less “personal” making murder with a firearm physically and mentally easier for the perpetrator.
But be on the lookout people… The left IS coming for your guns, and your right to protect yourself from Tyranny.. Will you hand them over, or will you fight for whats right..??
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:43amGuns don’t kill people. They just make it SUPER EASY.
Report Post »zoo9guy
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:26pmSo sad that an idiot can go on a rampage and there wasn’t a CCW permit holder nearby. Prayers for the family members effected…..
Report Post »billybe123
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:32pmAgree, if there would have been a CCW permit holder there, All might not have died.
Report Post »RestoreTruth
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:18amEspecially when this crazy chased the 11 yr old into the woods and swamp area just to gun him down.
Report Post »jmbogstad
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:21pmWhat a tragedy. I am afraid we wil continue to see things like this as the economy worsens. But don’t bother Obama, he can’t be blamed for a bad economy, it was caqused by everything except him.
Report Post »bkfirvine
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:28amObama isn’t to blame at all for the bad economy. He’s only been in office for over two and a half years.
//MORE SARCASM TO COME
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:15pmGlad the POS killed himself. So sad that he had to take his misery out on others…
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:47pmhe was shot by the police :P
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:43am@JB
Report Post »Even Better!