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8 Relatives Shot in Head in Ohio; Manhunt Underway 

KANTELE FRANKO                   Lt. Michael Preston, of the Ross County Sheriff’s Department speaks to the media on Union Hill                                    is roughly 80 miles east of
Associated Press                 Road that approaches a crime scene, Friday, April 22, 2016, in Pike County, Ohio. Eight members                                   Cincinnati.
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Eight       of a family were fatally shot in the head on Friday, leaving their rural town terrified.		                                        DeWine said there were no
members of a family, in-                                                                                                                                           indications that any of the
cluding a mother sleeping                                                                                                               (AP Photo/John Minchillo)  dead killed themselves,
in a bed with her 4-day-                                                                                                                                           and Reader said if the
old baby next to her, were                                                                                                                                         shooter or shooters are at
fatally shot in the head on                                                                                                                                        large, they should be con-
Friday, leaving their rural                                                                                                                                        sidered armed and “ex-
town terrified and reel-                                                                                                                                           tremely dangerous.”
ing while a manhunt was                                                                                                                                            DeWine said, “There may
launched for whoever’s re-                                                                                                                                         be more than one, there
sponsible.                                                                                                                                                         may be three. We just
Three children, including                                                                                                                                          don’t know at this point.”
the newborn, survived the                                                                                                                                          Some of the victims were
grisly killings that left seven                                                                                                                                    in bed, indicating they
adults and a 16-year-old                                                                                                                                           were shot while they were
boy dead in four homes in                                                                                                                                          sleeping, authorities said.
Pike County, said Attorney                                                                                                                                         The victims were identified
General Mike DeWine and                                                                                                                                            as members of the Rho-
Pike County Sheriff Charles                                                                                                                                        den family. Authorities said
Reader at an afternoon                                                                                                                                             some, not all, were killed in
news conference. The                                                                                                                                               bed.
economically distressed                                                                                                                                            “It’s heartbreaking,” DeW-
county in the Appala-                                                                                                                                              ine said.
chian Mountain region has
some 28,000 residents and                                                                                                                                              Continued on page 4