Overview
- Officers responded around 12:06 p.m. Saturday to a residence in the 900 block of Woodville Road in Mansfield, Ohio, for a report of two people with gunshot wounds.
- The 40-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the 9-year-old boy was taken to OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital where he later died.
- Mansfield police say the circumstances appear to be a murder-suicide, and detectives are working with the Richland County Coroner's Office to investigate.
- Authorities have not released the victims' names, and police identified them as father and son in their statement.
- A local outlet reported that the father's girlfriend was in the home and uninjured, according to neighbors, as friends voiced shock over the deaths.