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TexasTowelie

(111,959 posts) Fri May 12, 2017, 11:51 AM May 2017

Police: Officer shot after man opens fire in nursing home

KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a police officer was wounded amid reports of a shooting at an Ohio nursing home.

Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Robert Sellers says Friday that the situation has ended and there is no threat to the public.

Reports of the shooting at the Pine Kirk Care Center in Kirkersville came around 7:30 a.m.

A local elementary school was put on lockdown, and parents later were told they could pick up their children at a nearby middle school.

Read more: http://www.newsadvance.com/news/national/wire/police-officer-shot-after-man-opens-fire-in-nursing-home/article_63955955-39d0-5190-8aaa-1ba587062934.html

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Police: Officer shot after man opens fire in nursing home (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP

only one solution Botany May 2017 #1

Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the officer & 2 nursing home staff & the shooter are all dead. irisblue May 2017 #2

Botany

(70,447 posts)

1. only one solution

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2017, 11:53 AM

May 2017

we need more guns

irisblue

(32,932 posts)

2. Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the officer & 2 nursing home staff & the shooter are all dead.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2017, 01:35 PM

May 2017

The officer was the chief of police, Steven Disaro, been on the job for 3 weeks. The local NPR station & news outlets are not releasing much more info at this time.

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