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8 people are dead in what police are calling 'execution-style' shootings in 4 separate rural Ohio homes. Three young children survived the shootings. VPC
Authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, on April 22, 2016, in Pike County, Ohio.(Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
The search continues for the person who killed eight members of one family "execution style"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Friday in four separate homes in rural Ohio.
Authorities believe one gunman is behind the killings in Peebles, Ohio, and that he is on the loose, though a "person of interest" was detained in another community Friday night.
Investigators interviewed the "person of interest" who was detained in Chillicothe, Ohio in connection with the Rhoden family deaths, after a vehicle was stopped around 6:30 p.m. ET and officers from the Chillicothe Police Department and Ross Count, Ohio, Sheriff's Office took what appeared to be two people into custody. Authorities did not release more information.
The shootings claimed the lives of seven adults and a 16-year-old boy. Authorities said several of the victims were shot dead in their beds, the homes just miles apart. A 4 day old, a 3 year old and a 6 month old survived.
Leonard Manley, who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Cincinnati Enquirer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that he is the father and grandfather of some of the victims, said his daughter discovered the bodies when she went to Union Hill Road to feed dogs and chickens as part of her normal routine.
"This is a horrible, horrible tragedy," Ohio Attorney General<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Mike Dewine<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said in a meeting with reporters.
'Armed and dangerous'
DeWine and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader ruled out suicide for the victims. Each was shot in the head.
"Obviously we have<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one person<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who is armed and dangerous and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>there may be more, two or three," DeWine said. "We don't really know how many people we are talking about."
Reader urged Pike County residents not to panic, but be alert and lock their doors.
Police near Peebles, Ohio, investigated the reported death of seven family members at a home 75 east of Cincinnati.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Jess Grimm/Chillicothe Gazette)
Details remain sparse
The motive for the killings is unclear, officials said. But the evidence suggests the Rhoden family was targeted considering the shootings occurred in four separate crime scenes, the fourth crime scene more than a mile from the first crime scene.
Dozens of officers from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation were sent to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the scene at the request of the Pike County Sheriff’s Office.
Police quickly erected barricades to keep out traffic.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Several schools in the area were placed on lockdown as a precaution.
Nealeigh reports for the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chillicothe Gazette; Stanglin reported from McLean, Va.
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