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WEBVTT THEY TOOK TWO OTHER PEOPLEHOSTAGE.>> IT WAS A LOUD GUNSHOT.THE ONE SHOT WAS FOLLOWED BYSEVERAL MORE.>> BANG, BANG, BANG.KARIN: IT KILLED THE VILLAGEPOLICE CHIEF ERIC DOES REO --DESARIO.D HAD BEEN-- HE HAD BEEN ON THE JOB FORJUST THREE WEEKS.>> HE WAS REALLY NICE AND I WASHOPING IT WASN'T HIM.KARIN: THEY SAY THE GUNMANPARKED HIS CAR AT A TRUCK STOPABOUT A MILE AWAY.THEY TOOK TWO PEOPLE HOSTAGE.>> IT HAPPENED BY.HE TOOK CONTROL OF THEM SO THATTHEY WOULDN'T BLOW THE FACT OREXPOSE THE FACT THAT HE WASTHERE.THIS ARRIOLA SHOT AND KILLED.KARIN: T SUSPECT ENTERED THEPLAN FOR CARE CENTER WHERE HEKILLED TWO MORE PEOPLE.THE GUNMAN WAS ALSO KILLED.INVESTIGATORS WON'T SAY IF HETOOK HIS OWN LIFE OR OF SOMEONESHOT HIM.23 PATIENTS INSIDE WERE NOTINJURED.>> I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.I REALLY CANNOT BELIEVE IT.THIS STUFF DON'T HAPPEN HERE.KARIN: INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOTYET RELEASED THE GUNMAN'S NAME,ONLY THAT HE LIVES IN UTICAABOUT 26 MILES NORTH OF HERE.THEY'RE ALSO NOT SAYING IF HEHAD ANY CONNECTION TO ANYONEINSIDE THE NURSING HOME.IT IS JUST A STONES THROW AWAYFROM THE CRIME SCENE.

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Four people, including a police chief, were killed Friday in a shooting at a nursing home in central Ohio. An officer was shot near the Pine Kirk Care Center in Kirkersville, which is about 25 miles east of Columbus. Kirkersville police Chief Steven Eric Disario, 36, died in the shooting. Police said he had either five or six children with another on the way. The two other victims were identified as Cindy Krantz and Marlina Medrano. They were employees of the Pine Kirk Care Center. One was a nurse and the other was a nurse's aide. Authorities identified the shooter as Thomas Hartless, 43, of Utica. They said he had a relationship with Medrano. Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp said that Hartless took two passersby hostage on Friday behind the nursing home in a wooded area. Thorp said it was in that area that Disario was killed while responding to reports of a man with a gun. "Once the shot was fired at the chief, the two hostages took off running," Thorp said.Tiffani Chester lives nearby and spoke to one of the hostages. "He said he was walking behind the building, and the guy jumped out from behind the bushes and said 'get down now' and all this crazy stuff, and he said he took his cellphone from him and he said he actually saw him shoot the officer," Chester said. When other officers arrived, Disario was lying in the street dead, Thorp said. The other three were found dead inside the nursing home. Edna Groves lives across the street and heard the gunshots. "It just shook me up that's for sure. I didn't know whether to cry or what to do. So much anxiety builds up when something like that happens because you're not used to that here," Groves said. The nursing home has 23 residents, Thorp said. Some residents barricaded themselves in their rooms during the shooting. None of the residents were injured. They have been taken to other nursing homes or hospitals to stay until the crime scene is processed.Disario had been the police chief for about three weeks, Thorp said. "It's just a tragic event," Thorp said. "I guess the only peace of mind is that the threat is over. We don't have anybody running around that is going to pose a threat to the community. Now is just a time to process what's happened and put our arms around that family." The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been asked to lead the investigation into the shooting.