ROSS COUNTY, Ohio — A man is dead and a deputy was hospitalized after a shooting at the Ross County Sheriff's Office on Thursday.
Attorney General Dave Yost said that around 5 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Eric Kocheran was shot outside the sheriff's office. Steve Irwin with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations said the sheriff's office reached out to BCI at around 6 p.m. to investigate the shooting, in which he said a suspect was also shot.
Yost identified the suspect as 42-year-old Nicholas Mitchell. Mitchel was transported to a Chillicothe-area hospital and died due to his injuries.
Kocheran was taken to Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where Yost said he remains in serious condition.
"Every officer puts on the uniform in the morning knowing that today could be the day they face a deadly attack - and the go to work anyways," Yost said. "Sgt. Kocheran demonstrated that daily dose of courage. I ask for prayers for his recovery and for his family, who face a trauma I would wish for no one."
The sheriff's office did not say if the suspect was in custody at the time of the shooting.
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