NEWARK, Ohio - A man who was found dead from a gunshot wound when SWAT officers entered his home Tuesday north of Newark has been identified by the Licking County Coroner's Office as Mark Johnson. Johnson was 45, said Mickey Lymon, investigator with the coroner's office. Deputies were sent shortly before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 3100 block of Mount Vernon Road, in Newton Township, on a report of a domestic situation and a person with a gun, said Col. Chad Dennis with the Licking County Sheriff's Office.

NEWARK, Ohio � A man who was found dead from a gunshot wound when SWAT officers entered his home Tuesday north of Newark has been identified by the Licking County Coroner's Office as Mark Johnson.



Johnson was 45, said Mickey Lymon, investigator with the coroner's office.



Deputies were sent shortly before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 3100 block of Mount Vernon Road, in Newton Township, on a report of a domestic situation and a person with a gun, said Col. Chad Dennis with the Licking County Sheriff�s Office.



A woman on the initial 911 call can be heard saying �let me have the gun, please,� before the call disconnected.



When a dispatcher called back, the woman who answered identified herself as Johnson�s wife. She said Johnson was suicidal, had a terminal illness and had been drinking.



�He says if he sees the cops pull in, he�s pulling the trigger,� she told the dispatcher.



Johnson was outside and yelled an obscenity at deputies when they arrived, said Capt. Chris Slayman with the sheriff's office. Johnson went back into the home and deputies heard a single gunshot. The Licking County Sheriff�s Office SWAT team was called and nearby residents were evacuated.



SWAT officers threw in tear gas before they entered the home. They found Johnson dead inside from what appeared to be a single gunshot wound, Dennis said. No one else was there at the time. The woman from the 911 call and a 1-year-old child had left the house prior to the gunshot.



The sheriff's office said it is treating Johnson's death as a suicide.

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