Crime & Safety

Last Copley Shooting Victim Identified as Copley High Junior Amelia Shambaugh

Autopsies are ongoing as the police investigation continues.

Police and family members have identified 16-year-old Amelia Shambaugh, a Copley High School junior, as the final victim of the on Sunday.

Police asked the media to hold off on publicizing Shambaugh's name until family members outside the area could be notified.

"I talked to her father this morning and he said all the family members have been contacted," Copley Police Chief Michael Mier said this morning (Tuesday, Aug. 9). 

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Neighbors and classmates identified Shambaugh and 16-year-old early on as the two young female victims who were shot in an SUV in the driveway of the Russell Johnson home. (A memorial video for Shambaugh produced by her friends is here).

Four Johnson family members and two people visiting the neighborhood from Kentucky, including an 11-year-old boy, were and shot to death by, who shared the Copley Township home with Rebecca Dieter, 49. She is the only survivor and remains in intensive care at an area hospital.

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The shooting spree took just over 10 minutes.

Chief Mier said his officers have attended another autopsy this morning at the Summit County Medical Examiner's office.  One of the things the examination will reveal is whether drugs or alcohol played a role in Hance's shooting spree.

Officers from Copley, Akron and the Summit County Sheriff's department continue to work crime scenes at four houses on Goodenough Avenue and Schocalog Road, including 1219 Schocalog Road, where a Copley officer shot and killed Hance after he failed to obey his order to drop his gun.

"The investigation at the house where the officer shot (Hance), and where the 11-year-old was killed, is being conducted by the sheriff so that an independent agency can investigate the use of force," Mier said.

The officer involved in the shooting will remain on paid administrative leave, Mier said, until the investigation is finished and findings are evaluated by the Summit County Prosecutor.

The name of the officer who shot Hance has not been released.

Mier said Hance used two pistols as he chased and shot the seven victims Sunday. The make of the guns has not been made public.



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