Cops: Ohio Man Killed Neighbor For Being Democrat

Ohio’s Butler Journal-News reports:

A Morgan Twp. man charged with murder admitted to shooting and killing his neighbor in Okeana on Saturday, according to court documents. Austin Gene Combs, 26, was booked into the Butler County Jail on Saturday night and charged with murder.

Anthony Lee King, 43, died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office. Family members called 911 after hearing shots and finding King in the backyard unresponsive and bleeding.

“I look in the backyard and that man is walking away from my husband, and my husband is on the ground,” the woman says “He has come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat. Why, why … Please, I don’t understand.”

Read the full article. The 911 calls are below.

An Ohio man has been charged for gunning down his 43 yr old neighbor who was mowing his lawn. The victim’s wife told 911 dispatch that the angry neighbor had confronted her husband four times because he thought he was a Democrat. https://t.co/ifBekppERp

— Josh Mankiewicz (@JoshMankiewicz) November 8, 2022