A 41-year-old woman died at a hospital Monday night after being shot at a Zuck Road home in Butler Township where Knox County Sheriff's deputies were responding to a call that a woman was trying to force her way into the home.
After Sheriff's deputies say the woman fired multiple shots from a shotgun at them, a deputy fired a single shot, striking the suspect.
The woman died at Knox Community Hospital where she was transported after the shooting, the Sheriff’s Office said in an information release on Facebook.
Deputies had answered a call at 8:31 p.m. on Aug. 22 that a woman was trying to force her way into the Zuck Road home. When they arrived at the scene, they found the woman had entered the house. She refused their commands to come outside. At one point the Sheriff’s Office said she broke a window and pointed a shotgun toward the officers.
After firing the shotgun multiple times, a deputy fired a single shot that struck the suspect.
Information on the suspect is being withheld pending notification of her family.
The Danville and Mount Vernon Police Departments assisted on the scene.
A spokesperson with the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation confirmed that the Knox County Sheriff’s Office asked the BCI to investigate the fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred Monday evening on Zuck Road. He said the investigation was active and ongoing and had no further details to share.
This is the second incident of an officer-involved shooting for the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in the past several days. Two brothers were fatally shot on Saturday after an hours long standoff on Gilchrist Road.
Deputies responded to that scene after a bail bondsman called to report his vehicle had been shot multiple times by one of the victims, the Sheriff’s office said in a release on Monday morning. The bail bondsman was attempting to apprehend after failing to appear in Knox County Common Pleas Court on a $100,000 bond.
