'Hell Broke Loose' in Ohio, one officer shot dead, another injured

A sheriff’s deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a trailer park was shot dead, and the shooting suspect was killed after a gun battle with police.

Suzanne Waughtel Hopper was married and was the mother of two children. The deputy was shot as she tried to photograph a footprint in the mobile-home park, which sits near a highway

“Our deputy never had the opportunity to return fire or take cover,” Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said at a news conference.

A resident watched as another officer tried to reach her body. She said, “He was itching to get her. He kept radioing in, can he please get her, and he was told no because it wasn’t secure. You could see that male sheriff crying — he wanted to get her, he wanted to get her bad.”

Police officers were trying to retrieve the deputy’s body when the suspect fired on them from inside a trailer, and a German Township officer, Jeremy Blum, was wounded in a large exchange of gunfire.

Kelly, who has been sheriff for 24 years said, “This is the worst day of my entire law enforcement career”.

It appears that gunfire from Clark County deputies had killed the suspect. Watch the video below.

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