MOUNT VERNON — A juvenile suspect has been arrested and charged with a Tuesday night stabbing death on King Road in Howard, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Daniel J. Weckesser stated that authorities arrested a juvenile located at the residence on a charge of murder and transported that individual to the Muskingum […]
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Mansfield man, 18, shot to death Sunday morning in targeted attack, say police
MANSFIELD — An 18-year-old man was shot to death Sunday in an alley that connects Lexington Avenue and South Main Street, according to police. The identity of the victim was not released Sunday afternoon, pending the notification of his next-of-kin, Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann told Richland Source. Police were dispatched around 11 a.m. to […]
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News Man Weekly: Mansfield police on the hunt for a brutal, cold-case killer, Part 2
MANSFIELD — MANSFIELD — The 30th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, part two of a special two-part episode, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell talks about how a 43-year-old Mansfield murder mystery was recently solved. He is joined again by Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann, Detective Terry Butler and […]
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Richland County Coroner’s Office identifies Sunday morning homicide victim
MANSFIELD — The shooting death of Malachi Miller, 19, is being treated as a homicide, according to Bob Ball, chief investigator for the Richland County Coroner’s Office. The Mansfield teenager died early Sunday morning in his 459 S. Main St. residence, according to Mansfield police. Ball, who identified the victim to Richland Source on Sunday […]
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Mansfield police investigate Sunday morning shooting death of 19-year-old man
MANSFIELD — A 19-year-old man was found shot to death early Sunday morning, according to Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann. It could be the city’s fifth homicide of 2024 and the first since April. Bammann said officers responded to 459 S. Main St. at 2:36 a.m. after receiving a report of a shooting. “Upon arrival, […]
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Four people were inside Chestnut Street home when 16-year-old shot to death
MANSFIELD — There were four other people inside the house at 67 E. Chestnut St. when a 16-year-old Mansfield youth was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon, according to police Capt. Randy Carver. “We are talking to everyone else who was in the house at the time,” Carver said Thursday afternoon. “The investigation is fluid and […]
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Mansfield youth, 16, dies from gunshot wound on Wednesday afternoon
MANSFIELD — A 16-year-old Mansfield youth died Wednesday from a gunshot wound(s), according to Mansfield police, who labeled the incident as a homicide. It would be the city’s second homicide in the last five days. Officers responded to 67 E. Chestnut St. at approximately 2:02 p.m. after receiving a 911 call that a shooting had […]
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Mansfield police find two people shot to death on Monday night
MANSFIELD — The new year is beginning the same way the same way the old one ended in Mansfield — violently. Mansfield police found two people shot to death Monday night inside a house on the city’s east side in what could be a murder-suicide. It’s the second and third shooting deaths in the last […]
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Mansfield police investigating 12th homicide of the year
MANSFIELD — A 30-year-old man was shot to death early Saturday morning in an apparent dispute with an another man, according to Mansfield police. The death of Jervon King at 29 Minerva Ave. around 4 a.m. is the 12th homicide handled by Mansfield police in 2023. According to an emailed press release from Capt. Randy […]
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Ferndale Avenue double-homicide allegedly stemmed from gang dispute
MANSFIELD — A dispute between two gangs in Mansfield led to a shooting at an 810 Ferndale Ave. party that left two people dead and four others wounded on Oct. 27. That was the testimony Thursday afternoon from Mansfield police Sgt. Jered Kingsborough, a detective in the major crimes division. The testimony came during a […]