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U.S. NEWS Saturday 14 OctOber 2017

Suspect in 4 Ohio slayings arrested while walking along road

By KANTELE FRANKO determined whether it was in the same house trailer,
Associated Press his or an item he stole while his body apparently hid-
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — on the run. den, Lawless said.
Unarmed, worn out and Lawson is being held on A few relatives of the vic-
ready to give up, the sus- charges of murder and ag- tims said after the arrest
pect in the fatal shoot- gravated murder. It wasn’t that they had seen no sign
ings of three adults and a immediately clear whether or warning of such violence
7-year-old boy didn’t try to he has an attorney. by Lawson, who lived up
flee when officers arrested He was arrested roughly the road from the trailer
him Friday as he walked 12 miles (19 kilometers) home.
along a road in far southern south of where authorities Lawson was being ques-
Ohio, a sheriff said. found three adults dead in tioned by investigators Fri-
Officers were acting on a house trailer on Wednes- day and could face more
a tip from a resident who day evening. The sheriff charges, the sheriff said.
spotted 23-year-old Arron identified them Friday as Agents from the Ohio Bu-
Lawson. Authorities had a 28-year-old resident of reau of Criminal Investiga-
said he fled into the woods the home, Stacey Jackson, tion have been helping
Thursday, shortly after mid- and two relatives who lived Lawrence County with the
night. at a property on the same investigation, BCI spokes-
Lawson is an outdoorsman road, 50-year-old Donald woman Jill Del Greco said.
and hunter who liked being McGuire and 43-year-old The initial report about the
in the woods, but “I think Tammie McGuire. slayings — violence against
he was just plumb worn out The father of 7-year-old multiple people believed
from being out in the ele- victim Devin Holston came to be related — recalled
ments” during a manhunt upon the scene after work, details from a still-unsolved
that spanned two cool was stabbed and fled the homicide case that rattled
nights, Lawrence County home to seek help. He was rural southern Ohio last
Sheriff Jeffery Lawless said. flown to a hospital in Hun- year, but the cases didn’t
The sheriff wouldn’t discuss tington, West Virginia, and appear to be connected,
any potential motive or the is recovering well, Lawless Del Greco said.The deaths
chronology of the slayings, said. on Wednesday occurred
and he declined to dis- Devin initially was the sub- Suspect Arron Lawson, 23, is escorted into the Lawrence County roughly 40 miles (64 kilome-
close what Lawson said to ject of a missing-child alert Courthouse, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 by Sheriff Jeff Lawless, left, ters) southeast of the Pike-
of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in Ironton, Ohio. He
the arresting officers. Law- after the adults were dis- was arrested roughly 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of where ton area, where eight peo-
son was wearing a camou- covered. Authorities spent authorities found three adults dead in a house trailer on ple from the Rhoden family
flage jacket, but the sheriff hours searching for him, Wednesday evening. were found shot to death in
said investigators hadn’t only to later find him dead (Jessica St. James/Ironton Tribune via AP) four homes in April 2016.q

Las Vegas gunman targeted responding police, jet fuel tanks

By KEN RITTER to inflict even more car- questions about whether spraying 200 rounds from crowd. Then he killed him-
Associated Press nage than the 58 people police could have done his suite into the hallway self with a gunshot to the
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The he murdered. Investigators more to stop him on Oct. 1. of the Mandalay Bay at head. The timeline comes
gunman who sprayed gave more details on the “In the public space, the 9:59 p.m., wounding an un- as investigators say they
more than 1,000 rounds chronology of events sur- word ‘incompetent’ has armed security guard in the have yet to identify a mo-
of bullets into a Las Vegas rounding the shooting and been brought forward,” leg. He said Friday that the tive behind the worst mass
country music concert also pushed back against criti- Clark County Sheriff Joe security guard came to a shooting in modern U.S. his-
took shots at jet fuel tanks cism that they were chang- Lombardo said. “I am ab- barricaded stairwell door tory. “We are establishing
and targeted police of- ing their story. Shifting ac- solutely offended with that at 9:59 and wasn’t shot until a timeline of this suspect’s
ficers responding to the counts about when Ste- characterization.” around 10:05 p.m. life, his motivation and ev-
scene, investigators said phen Paddock fired his first In a chronology provid- About that time, the gun- erybody associated with
Friday in portraying a killer shots in his 32nd floor Man- ed Monday, Lombardo man unleashed a barrage him throughout time,” Lom-
who seemed determine dalay Bay suite have led to had said Paddock started of bullets on the festival bardo said. q