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Ohio Attorney General Visits Homes Where 8 Were Shot Dead
By: Associated Press
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PIKETON, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s attorney general is touring the four homes where eight people from one family were shot dead in a rural part of the state.
Seven adults and a 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties in the hills near Piketon. Investigators have interviewed more than 50 people but haven’t made arrests or confirmed a specific motive for the slayings.
Attorney General Mike DeWine was in a group of law enforcement vehicles that headed up a winding road toward some of the properties Wednesday morning. He had been at the scenes last week, but a spokeswoman said DeWine planned this time to go inside each home.
A coroner says seven of the eight victims were shot multiple times, and one had nine gunshot wounds. Some victims also had bruising.
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) – The brother of some of the eight family members found shot last week in rural southern Ohio says five victims will be buried side by side in a nearby town.
Seven adults and 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties near Piketon. Investigators have interviewed more than 50 people in the case but have made no arrests.
Tony Rhoden tells The Columbus Dispatch his 73-year-old mother has been holding the grieving family together.
Rhoden lost two brothers, his former sister-in-law and a cousin in the slayings. He says the victims also included a teenage nephew who had just earned a driver’s license, a 19-year-old niece who worked at a nursing home and had a days-old newborn, and a 20-year-old nephew who loved to hunt and fish.