![]() 30, 6 miles west of where southbound drivers were being diverted off the U.S. The need to shut down I-71 caused traffic backups near the affected interchanges lasting several hours, resulting in requests for emergency personnel to direct traffic off the highway.ĭante Whitson, who was working Sunday afternoon at the Duchess station at Ohio 13 and U.S. Richland County Sheriff's Office deputies and Washington Township Fire Department assisted the patrol at the scene. No officers were injured in the chase or crash. The victim in the shooting was taken to Grant Medical Center in Columbus. 10TV in Columbus had reported that after a man and a woman drove up to the Delaware County rest stop, the woman waited in the car as the man went to the restroom. When the man returned, he was shot six times by someone sitting on a nearby park bench, according to the station. The victim, whose name also is being withheld, is in critical condition at a local hospital. The name of the suspect was being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Once contact was made, the suspect was discovered to be dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the patrol reported. The pursuit came to an end after the suspect’s vehicle drove over road spikes and crashed into a guardrail on I-71 northbound in Richland County near mile marker 172, officials reported. Both the suspect and victim were standing outside near the victim’s vehicle at the time of the shooting, according to the patrol.īoth the patrol and Delaware County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded, resulting in a multicounty pursuit. reporting the suspect in the shooting fired several shots at a vehicle at the rest stop in Delaware County, striking a victim. The patrol issued a statement at 3:30 p.m. ![]() Sunday at a rest stop on I-71 in Delaware County. 30 to the Ohio 13 exits, after a multicounty chase that involved a suspect believed to be involved in a shooting shortly after 11 a.m. The Ohio State Highway Patrol shut down three I-71 interchanges in Richland County, from the U.S. Sunday at the scene of a crash and standoff that occurred near the Ohio 39 exit off Interstate 71. MANSFIELD - The Richland County Coroner's Office said an unidentified man was confirmed dead at 3:08 p.m. ![]()
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