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Middleport Man Charged with Murder
By: Atish Baidya
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A Middleport man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another man.
Andy Doczi, 37, is charged with aggravated murder in the death of Andrew Everett, 33, of Shade.
According to the Athens County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call on May 23 about a body found outside the residence at 15010 Fossil Rock Road. Deputies arrived on scene and discovered Everett dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Athens County Sheriff Rodney Smith says in a news release that detectives were able to quickly identify Doczi as a suspect and bring him in for questioning. According to Smith “Doczi admitted to pointing a weapon towards Everett and firing a single shot” and “lead investigators to a wooded area in Meigs County where a firearm was recovered.”
Doczi is in the Southeast Ohio Regional Jail on a one-million-dollar bond.