Police in Copley Township said a family argument sparked by an out-of-town guest’s visit led to a shooting rampage that left a woman shot and eight others dead — including the gunman — in the northeast Ohio suburb Sunday morning.
The shooting spree started just before 11 a.m. Sunday at a house in the 2300 block of Goodenough Avenue. Copley Township is located just outside of Akron, Ohio and 40 miles south of Cleveland.
Copley Police Chief Michael Mier spelled out this chain of events in a news release sent out late Sunday night:
1) Gunman shoots girlfriend (it’s believed several people were in the house at the time)
2) Gunman runs to adjacent house, confronts girlfriend’s brother and then shoots the brother and four bystanders at the home
3) Gunman chases two more bystanders through some backyards, shooting one of them outside a house on Schocalog. This house is where two other people the gunman was chasing were hiding.
4) Gunman enters home and shoots one person and leaves home
5) Gunman shoots at police officer and another citizen — and is shot and killed by the officer.
In all, police said there were four different crime scenes as a result of the shootings.
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