Person dies following deputy-involved shooting in Portage County

WINDHAM TOWNSHIP, Ohio — State authorities are investigating a deadly capturing involving a Portage County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy and an individual concerned in a neighbor dispute in Windham Township Saturday morning.

In keeping with the sheriff’s workplace, a deputy and an officer from the Garretsville Police Division responded to the 8000 block of Werger Highway for a dispute between neighbors. They had been suggested whereas en route that one of many people within the dispute was armed.

“As soon as officers arrived on the scene and started to analyze, photographs had been fired,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

Following the capturing, one individual was taken to College Hospitals Portage Medical Middle and was pronounced useless. The deputy and the officer weren’t injured.

Specifics concerning what led as much as photographs fired weren’t launched.

“Right now, particulars will stay imprecise as a result of an ongoing investigation and till all relations are notified,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

The Ohio Bureau of Felony Investigation was known as in by the sheriff’s workplace to deal with the capturing investigation.

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