Kirkersville Shooting: Three Dead, Including Police Chief, at Ohio Nursing Home

[jpak]

Source: NBC News

A shooter opened fire inside an Ohio nursing home Friday, killing two employees and the town's brand new police chief, police said.

Dozens of law enforcement officers were dispatched to Pine Kirk Care Center in Kirkersville after panicked 911 calls.

Kirkersville Police Chief Steven Eric Disario, 36, died, and two nursing home workers were also found dead, Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp confirmed.

"It's a real hard day for all of us," Thorp said. "The deputies who pulled him to safety, if you will, are having a real hard time."

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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kirkersville-shooting-three-dead-including-police-chief-ohio-nursing-home-n758596

[dbackjon]

1. Very sad.

[Kittycow]

2. OMG those poor people.

I was a CNA for many years so this hits home more than usual.

[Botany]

3. Only one solution

we need more guns

*****
This happened about 1/2 an hour from my house.

[SoCalMusicLover]

4. It's Just Awful....

It's too bad there wasn't a good guy with a gun around, like perhaps a police chief.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Thanks, NRA - you obscene, bloodthirty, greedy fuckers!

[Marengo]

6. How is the NRA responsible?

[Egnever]

7. I would hazard a guess that they are responsible by working against common sense gun legislation

For things like background checks. They are responsible for the huge flood of guns on our streets because of their continued obstruction in getting any kind of gun legislation passed.

I am not the poster you replied to but I would be willing to bet that is their thinking.

[hack89]

13. It's always the NRA's fault

Nuance is not common in gun threads.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Another gun lover exercised his "2nd amendment rights." Big day for NRA. n/t

[bresue]

11. WHERE ARE OUR RIGHTS...

TO WALK FREELY AND GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT WORRYING OF GETTING SHOT BY A CRAZY NUT?

[Delphinus]

12. That's my question too.

My husband and I were at a local Starbucks a few months ago and someone came in wearing his holster and his gun. Now there are often police and sheriff's officers there and I have no problem with that. But a civilian - makes me want to leave. They want to intimidate - they've done it. I'm intimidated.

By the way, belated welcome to DU.

[mackdaddy]

9. Another Murder - Suicide taken to the girlfriend's workplace apparently

Guy had previous convictions for serious domestic violence. So it was illegal for him to have a gun probably.

http://nbc4i.com/2017/05/12/man-accused-of-killing-kirkersville-police-chief-and-two-others-identified/

Side note, One of the same licking county sheriffs deputies committed murder suicide earlier this year.
http://nbc4i.com/2017/02/02/two-killed-in-newark-township-shooting/


My parents live 3 miles from Kirkersville, and my mother is playing piano Sunday for the Methodist church across the street from this nursing home.

[llmart]

10. Probably redneck town...

I know a couple of small towns around that area and they worship at the altar of the NRA.