‘Devastating’: Deputy shot and killed in the line of duty on Memorial Day
MARENGO, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A deputy in Ohio was shot and killed in the line of duty on Memorial Day, according to officials.
The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office said 31-year-old deputy Daniel Weston Sherrer was responding to a domestic call at a home in Marengo, located about 35 miles northeast of Columbus, when he was shot.
Morrow County Sheriff John L. Hinton said Sherrer was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.
“The subject was also shot and was transported to a hospital in serious condition,” the sheriff wrote on the department’s Facebook page. “There are no words to express the pain being felt by our office.”
Sherrer began working at the sheriff’s office on May 16, 2021.
The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office and Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) are investigating.
“My heart is torn by the loss of yet another Ohio law enforcement officer, who paid the ultimate sacrifice while protecting his community. We are forever indebted to those who lay down their lives for others,” Ohio Attorney General Yost said in a news release.
The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office and BCI to investigate the incident.
Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno called the deputy’s killing “devastating.”
“I’m keeping Deputy Daniel Sherrer’s family and the entire community in my prayers, and am grateful for our law enforcement officers across Ohio,” he wrote in a post on X.
This is the second fatal law enforcement-involved shooting BCI responded to overnight.
State agents were also summoned to Butler County in southwestern Ohio, where Middletown Police shot and killed a man as they arrived to search a home.
A second person was hurt and taken to a nearby hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, according to the county prosecutor.
Middletown is about halfway between Dayton and Cincinnati.
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