Officials from the Medina County Sheriff's Office, along with other law enforcement agencies, are holding a press conference this afternoon to provide more details following the fatal shooting of Ohio Amber Alert suspect Charles Alexander on Monday night.
Police initially reported that a 7-year-old child was taken by her non-custodial father, identified as 43-year-old Charles Alexander, following an altercation in the village of Empire in Jefferson County at around 3 p.m. Monday. According to a press release, the pair had been traveling in a Ford F-150 pickup truck before eventually getting into a U-Haul.
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Captain Eric Bors with the Medina County Sheriff's Office confirmed law enforcement tracked the suspect vehicle more than 100 miles away to Brunswick, where police officers attempted to pull the truck over at roughly 8 p.m. A chase involving several departments then followed along the highway, with authorities deploying stop sticks that eventually forced the vehicle to exit I-71 at state Route 18 in Medina Township.
The U-Haul came to a stop in a parking lot near an Arby's, where the sheriff's office says dispatchers and other authorities spoke with Alexander via telephone in an attempt to negotiate. In a media release sent early Tuesday morning, the sheriff's office claimed "multiple guns (sic) shots were fired in an officer-involved shooting." After the bullets rang out, Alexander was pronounced dead at the scene by Medina County Coroner Dr. Lisa Deranek.
The statement from the sheriff's office didn't say whether Alexander was armed with a weapon, or specify what exactly prompted officers to open fire.
Per Bors, the young girl "appeared to be completely OK" and was reunited with her mother. No officers were injured during the incident.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is assisting the Medina County Sheriff's Office in its probe of the incident.
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