Multistate manhunt for particular person of curiosity wanted 4 folks fatally shot in Ohio

The FBI is concerned in a multistate manhunt for an individual of curiosity sought within the deadly taking pictures of 4 folks in Ohio.

The particular person of curiosity, recognized by police as 39-year-old Stephen Marlow, needs to be thought of “armed and harmful,” FBI Cincinnati said on Twitter. He has ties to Indianapolis, Chicago and Lexington, Kentucky, and “may very well be in one in all these cities,” FBI Cincinnati stated.

Marlow is needed in reference to the taking pictures deaths of 4 folks in Butler Township, a small city north of Dayton on Friday, police stated.

Police responding to reviews of gunfire shortly earlier than midday discovered the 4 victims affected by gunshot wounds at “a number of crime scenes” in a residential space, the Butler Township Police Division stated.

The 4 victims had been pronounced useless on the scenes. They haven’t been recognized by police.

Butler Township Police Chief John Porter stated they do not consider there’s a continued menace to the neighborhood however “we are going to proceed to have crews within the space in case Marlow would return,” he advised reporters on Friday. The Dayton Police Division Bomb Squad was additionally contacted “out of an abundance of warning,” he stated.

Neighbors had been requested to evaluate any video digital camera footage from that day.

Porter stated police had been working to find out “if there have been any motive to this horrible tragedy” and didn’t have any additional data on the investigation.

“That is the primary violent crime on this neighborhood in latest reminiscence,” Porter stated.

Marlow is believed to have fled the world in a white 2007 Ford Edge SUV with the Ohio license plate JES9806, police stated.

He was described by police as roughly 5’11”, 160 kilos with brief brown hair and was final seen sporting shorts and a yellow T-shirt.