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Dead suspect in Ohio trailer park shootout is ID'd
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January 3, 2011, Monday
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AUTHORITIES day identified a man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and injuring a police officer in a gunbattle at a trailer park.
The Clark County sheriff's office provided few details about shooting suspect Michael Ferryman, who also was killed during the New Year's Day standoff in the Enon Beach mobile-home park, in western Ohio.
Ferryman, 57, lived in the trailer where the gunfire broke out with police, Chief Deputy David Rapp said.
The standoff started after Deputy Suzanne Hopper was called to the trailer park to investigate a report of gunshots, authorities say. Hopper, who was married last year and had two children, was shot dead as she tried to photograph a footprint at the park, about 50 miles west of Columbus.
Sheriff Gene Kelly told reporters at a yesterday news conference that Hopper and the officer who accompanied her to the trailer park believed the shooter was no longer in the area when they began their investigation. Then, Kelly said, Ferryman's trailer door opened near Hopper.
"One shotgun blast was fired at a very close proximity, striking the deputy, and it was a fatal wound," he said.
Kelly has said responding police officers tried to talk to Ferryman - who had "a history" with the sheriff's office - when he fired on them from inside the trailer. A German Township officer was wounded in the ensuing gunbattle, in which "many, many, many" shots were fired by the suspect and eight officers, Kelly said.
The wounded officer, Jeremy Blum, was listed in fair condition yesterday at a Dayton hospital.
Authorities had yet to determine whether police gunfire killed Ferryman or he killed himself. Agents from the state crime lab are helping with the investigation into Hopper and Ferryman's deaths and are looking into Ferryman's background, Kelly said.
Eight sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation, Kelly told reporters. That's common procedure when deputies or police officers are involved in shootings.
No telephone listing for someone with Ferryman's name and date of birth could be found yesterday.
A girl who lives in the trailer park said she knew Ferryman and he had a temper.
"He was a quiet person, but if you made him mad - he wasn't very pleasant," 15-year-old Chelsea Bagley said Saturday.
The Clark County sheriff's office provided few details about shooting suspect Michael Ferryman, who also was killed during the New Year's Day standoff in the Enon Beach mobile-home park, in western Ohio.
Ferryman, 57, lived in the trailer where the gunfire broke out with police, Chief Deputy David Rapp said.
The standoff started after Deputy Suzanne Hopper was called to the trailer park to investigate a report of gunshots, authorities say. Hopper, who was married last year and had two children, was shot dead as she tried to photograph a footprint at the park, about 50 miles west of Columbus.
Sheriff Gene Kelly told reporters at a yesterday news conference that Hopper and the officer who accompanied her to the trailer park believed the shooter was no longer in the area when they began their investigation. Then, Kelly said, Ferryman's trailer door opened near Hopper.
"One shotgun blast was fired at a very close proximity, striking the deputy, and it was a fatal wound," he said.
Kelly has said responding police officers tried to talk to Ferryman - who had "a history" with the sheriff's office - when he fired on them from inside the trailer. A German Township officer was wounded in the ensuing gunbattle, in which "many, many, many" shots were fired by the suspect and eight officers, Kelly said.
The wounded officer, Jeremy Blum, was listed in fair condition yesterday at a Dayton hospital.
Authorities had yet to determine whether police gunfire killed Ferryman or he killed himself. Agents from the state crime lab are helping with the investigation into Hopper and Ferryman's deaths and are looking into Ferryman's background, Kelly said.
Eight sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation, Kelly told reporters. That's common procedure when deputies or police officers are involved in shootings.
No telephone listing for someone with Ferryman's name and date of birth could be found yesterday.
A girl who lives in the trailer park said she knew Ferryman and he had a temper.
"He was a quiet person, but if you made him mad - he wasn't very pleasant," 15-year-old Chelsea Bagley said Saturday.
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