8 family members shot dead in Ohio mass shooting incident, three kids survive

New York, Apr. 23 : Eight family members were found dead after being shot in the head “execution style in a rural southern Ohio community.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said investigators discovered seven adults and a 16-year-old dead at four crime scenes and the victims included a mother slain while her four-day-old child lay beside her. “We’re advising family members to be very careful and take particular caution,” CNN quoted him as saying.Pike County Sheriff, Charles Reader said that officers are searching for the killer or killers, who are probably armed and a danger to surviving family members.”We have a specific family that’s been targeted but I don’t think there’s been a threat to any other members of the community,” he said. “I’ve given the family precautionary measures to make. They know we’re available,” CNN quoted him as saying.Reader said that the child, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, survived the killings. He, however, did not name any suspect or give a motive, but said that all victims were members of the Rhoden family.The Ohio Attorney informed that the residents are grappling with a kind of violence rarely seen in Piketon, a town of about 2,000 residents 90 miles east of Cincinnati.”What makes this particularly grisly is you have three children involved who were there when the executions took place,” he said.Reader said that the sheriff’s office was notified in Friday morning that two bodies had been found in a bloody scene and the Officers were flagged down and told other bodies had been located.