Canadian Politics Today

A Morgan Twp. man has by indicted for the deadly shooting of his neighbor Saturday in Okeana.

Austin Gene Combs, 26, was indicted Thursday by a Butler County grand jury for aggravated murder with a gun specification.

He was booked on Saturday night into the Butler County Jail, where he remains held in lieu of a $950,000 bond set Monday during a video arraignment at the Butler County Historic Courthouse.

Anthony Lee King, 43, died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office.

Combs admitted to shooting and killing King in the yard of his Chapel Road residence, according to court documents.

The victim’s wife then tells the dispatcher they were cutting grass and working in the yard when she came inside to let the dog out. That’s when she heard gunshots, she said.
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“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.”