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Updated · Canton Repository · Jul 6

Domestic Shooting in Rittman Kills 4, Including 10-Year Officer, and Wounds 4 Deputies

Updated

Updated · Canton Repository · Jul 6

Domestic Shooting in Rittman Kills 4, Including 10-Year Officer, and Wounds 4 Deputies

Q: What was the relationship between the Ohio shooter and the mother and daughter he killed before ambushing police?

It has not been publicly established in the available reporting what Brandon Fazekas’ exact relationship was to Christine McWilliams and her 13-year-old daughter, McKinley Williams. The confirmed facts are that Fazekas, 38, McWilliams, 43, and McKinley were all found dead at the Chippewa Trail home in Rittman after the shooting, and authorities have identified the women and girl as homicide victims while Fazekas’ death was ruled consistent with suicide. Sgt. Scott Ries was then killed after officers responding to the scene came under fire. Because officials have not publicly described Fazekas as a husband, boyfriend, relative, or other specific connection in the reporting provided, any characterization beyond that would be speculative. The circumstances suggest he was connected to the household or incident at the residence, but investigators had not, at the time of the cited reports, released a defined relationship.

3 articles · Updated · Canton Repository · Jul 6

Four people died in the July 5 shooting in Rittman, including Sgt. Scott Ries, a 10-year police veteran who was pronounced dead at Summa Akron City Hospital.
Authorities said officers answering a 9:30 p.m. 911 call about a break-in and shots fired immediately came under fire in what sheriffs described as a domestic disturbance involving former couple Christine McWilliams and Brandon Fazekas.
Wayne County officials identified the other dead as Christine McWilliams, 43, her daughter McKinley McWilliams, 13, and Fazekas, 38, whose wound was consistent with suicide; four Medina County deputies were shot, two hospitalized in stable condition.
K9 Vick of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office was also shot and remained in serious condition as the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation took over the case with local agencies assisting.
Gov. Mike DeWine ordered flags lowered in Wayne County for Ries, while residents and officers from other departments gathered at the Rittman police station to mourn the loss in the town of about 6,100.