A police officer has been found dead behind the municipal building in Danville, Ohio, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said Monday.
Danville Officer Thomas Cottrell was found dead on the ground behind the Danville Municipal Building and his service weapon had been taken and his cruiser was missing, Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer said in a statement early Monday.
Officials did not immediately say how the officer died. But, Chief Jim Gilbert, the chief deputy of the Franklin County Sheriff’s office in Ohio, tweeted early Monday: “Prayers for Ohio’s first fallen officer for 2016 a Danville PD Officer was shot/killed this evening in Knox County. ”
Shaffer’s statement said authorities received a call at 11:20 p.m. Sunday from a woman saying that police officers in Danville were in danger, and that her ex-boyfriend, Herschel Ray Jones, had weapons and was looking to kill an officer.
Shaffer says dispatchers tried to make contact with the Danville officer, but were unsuccessful. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office then searched the village.
About 20 minutes after the initial call to dispatchers, Cottrell was found dead.
Just after 1:30 a.m., Jones was seen running from a home and was captured near Danville Park after a short foot chase, officials said.
Danville is located about 60 miles northeast of Columbus and 100 miles southeast of Cleveland.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
It’s time to just dishout justice immediately. Some people who delibertly go out to kill another (like Obummer and the bomb to Iran). Have no right to speak their lie’s.
No fear by murder’s with curtrwnt Atty. Gen . and Pres. we have Dont Americans get it?
I have gotten tired of offering condolences to the hero’s families. There is no excuse for this and when our cops aren’t safe, who is?
It’s time to do public executions of cop killers!
No mercy!
And today is the day we are supposed to honor the card carrying communist anarchist who caused the original hope and change to our country that has brought us to this point. It will only get worse from here.
If he was Islamic, time to send a message to the Muslim community.. kill all the men, clerics first in Ohio. No exceptions.
Where is the community outrage ??? Maybe it is time for police to patrol together so they can
cover each others backs ??? Thanks to the woman that called in to the police that other
police officers weren’t hurt or killed by this murderer.
Did Obama call the family and give them his condolences ???