Learn about Augusta ties of Ohio family killed in apparent murder-suicide

CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WRDW/WAGT) – 4 persons are useless, and a fifth is in important situation after a capturing in Ohio with native ties.

Police imagine it might be a murder-suicide. It occurred Monday and a Westside Excessive graduate who grew up right here in Augusta is likely one of the victims shot and killed.

Crime scene tape surrounds the house in Clarendon County, Ohio, that belonged to the Cain household.

Neighbors say the home was in foreclosures, and deputies arrived to serve eviction papers when photographs rang out.

“It’s laborious for anyone to know this,” mentioned Mary-Kay Victor, a neighbor.

Victor and her husband Joe say they stroll the household canine within the neighborhood every single day and say she heard concerning the murders from her son-in-law who lives subsequent door to the place the photographs had been fired.

“To begin with, prayers for this household. I can’t even think about what they’re going by means of,” she mentioned.

The sheriff says the victims are 50-year-old Steven Cain, 46-year-old Teresa Cain, 74-year-old William Felton, and 13-year-old Ethan Cain. The sheriff says 20-year-old Samantha Cain is in important situation.

Steven was generally known as the lead singer for the band, Vital Chaos, which performs groove/thrash steel, based on the band’s web site.

Steven grew up in Augusta within the Nationwide Hills neighborhood. He went to Westside Excessive College, and household and mates describe him as an awesome man, somebody you by no means noticed indignant or upset. He posted a poem he wrote referred to as ‘Take a look at the Flowers’ on his Fb web page only a day earlier than his loss of life. One of many strains: “take a look at the flowers and consider higher days.”

His eighth-grade son’s faculty mirrored on these higher days.

“Lecturers and employees members had been in tears immediately,” mentioned Superintendent Tracey Miller.

He says academics closed the textbooks and allowed college students to speak concerning the loss of life of their classmates.

“Only a vivid younger life has been extinguished like this,” mentioned Miller. “We’ve got a big bulletin board the place youngsters can simply publish Submit-it Notes. It’s their message. It’s what they need Ethan to know. It could deliver tears to your eyes”

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