TWINSBURG: Two people are dead and a third is wounded after an apparent domestic disturbance turned deadly Tuesday night in Twinsburg.
Authorities say a 55-year-old man died at the Cleveland Clinic Twinsburg Family Health & Surgery Center after the 6 p.m. shooting at a home near the intersection of Sherwin Drive and Darrow Road.
Twinsburg police said the gunman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The identity of the two victims will not be released until Wednesday morning.
The extent of the injuries to a third victim were not disclosed, but the individual was transported to the emergency room at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, police said.
Twinsburg Police Lt. Gina DeVito-Staub said officers and rescue units were dispatched to 2425 Sherwin Drive at 5:49 p.m. for a reported shooting at the residence.
DeVito-Staub said “security measures” had to be taken to secure the scene to tend to the wounded.
Nearby residents were ordered inside their homes as gunfire filled the air once again after officers and fire department personnel arrived at the home.
Shortly after the shooting, police also ordered the Kent State Regional Academic Center on Creekside Drive in Twinsburg into a lockdown.
Kent State spokesman Eric Mansfield said there were about 200 students and faculty in the Twinsburg Regional Academic Center when the lockdown was ordered.
The all-clear was issued around 7:30 p.m. and classes were canceled for the night.
John Ruda, who lives on Darrow Road, said he had just returned home with his family from dinner when a number of police cars came screaming into the neighborhood.
He said he pulled out his cellphone and began recording and then ducked for cover as he heard police officers screaming at someone followed by numerous gunshots.
“Police cars were driving onto lawns and they came out with their guns drawn,” Ruda said.
McKenzie Aigler, 18, said he knew the older couple who lived in the house where the shooting occurred.
He said the couple’s son and his wife also lived on the property.
“They were the nicest couple in the neighborhood,” he said.
Ken Coon, who lives on the corner of Sherwin Drive and Darrow Road, said he was inside with his 6-year-old grandson when shots rang out.
The grandson, Coon said, turned to him and said, “Papaw. You hear someone’s shooting?”
Coon said the neighborhood is normally a quiet place to live.
“In today’s society, this could happen anywhere,” he said.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations was called to the scene.
