Gunman killed after shooting seven dead
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August 9, 2011, Tuesday
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A GUNMAN killed seven people and wounded another, before police shot him dead in a gunfight.
Police say the man shot his girlfriend in one home on Sunday morning, then ran to a neighbor's house, where he shot her brother and four others in the town of Copley, Ohio, US.
He then chased four people - two through back gardens - shooting one of them before bursting into a nearby home, where two others had sought refuge.
Police said he shot his eighth victim in that home and left, getting into a gunfight outside with a police officer and a former police officer. The unnamed gunman was killed.
Only one of those shot survived. Police said that victim was taken to hospital.
Neighbors said the dead included an 11-year-old boy, while a school official said he had been told two of the victims were students at the local high school. Neighbors say at least three victims were from a single family.
Gilbert Elie, who has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years, heard the gunshots and cries for help as he prepared for church. Elie said he went to a house across the street and found the woman who lived there lying in the driveway, her husband shot near the garage, and their young granddaughter and another woman shot in the front seat of a vehicle.
A third woman came out of the house next door and tried to talk to Elie, he said, but their brief exchange ended abruptly when a man followed her out of the house and shot her, sending 76-year-old Elie running for safety.
He said: "She was talking to me, and he come up behind her and shot her."
He hid until the gunman left. Police arrived, and Elie said he heard shots coming from behind the houses and assumed officers had killed the gunman.
Police say the man shot his girlfriend in one home on Sunday morning, then ran to a neighbor's house, where he shot her brother and four others in the town of Copley, Ohio, US.
He then chased four people - two through back gardens - shooting one of them before bursting into a nearby home, where two others had sought refuge.
Police said he shot his eighth victim in that home and left, getting into a gunfight outside with a police officer and a former police officer. The unnamed gunman was killed.
Only one of those shot survived. Police said that victim was taken to hospital.
Neighbors said the dead included an 11-year-old boy, while a school official said he had been told two of the victims were students at the local high school. Neighbors say at least three victims were from a single family.
Gilbert Elie, who has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years, heard the gunshots and cries for help as he prepared for church. Elie said he went to a house across the street and found the woman who lived there lying in the driveway, her husband shot near the garage, and their young granddaughter and another woman shot in the front seat of a vehicle.
A third woman came out of the house next door and tried to talk to Elie, he said, but their brief exchange ended abruptly when a man followed her out of the house and shot her, sending 76-year-old Elie running for safety.
He said: "She was talking to me, and he come up behind her and shot her."
He hid until the gunman left. Police arrived, and Elie said he heard shots coming from behind the houses and assumed officers had killed the gunman.
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