WEST MILTON — Law enforcement continues to investigate a murder-suicide in our area.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00, we learned that this is connected to a third person who investigators found dead in a different county.
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News Center 7 spent all day Saturday working our sources to understand a murder-suicide investigation.
As previously reported by News Center 7, a West Milton Police officer was on patrol just after 5 a.m. when they saw a car in the West Milton Municipal building parking lot on State Route 48.
They found a woman dead in a car’s trunk, and a man was dead next to the car. West Milton said that he shot himself.
At the same time, in Greene County, sources told News Center 7 that Sugarcreek Township Police were investigating a case where they found a woman dead in a condominium.
News Center 7 reported on Saturday that Sugarcreek Township Police and Ohio BCI agents responded to Honey Tree Place. They blocked that area off between Sugar Point Way and Sweet Maple Lane.
The condo was just up the street from the police department.
A woman told Patterson that she heard a strange noise from her neighbor’s balcony window above her.
“It woke me up out of a dead sleep,” an anonymous woman said. “I heard these three loud noises, like somebody was banging on the window trying to get in.”
She got out of bed to see what was happening.
“He had placed a ladder on the HVAC unit to climb up to her balcony,” the woman told Patterson.
She did not see who was on that ladder.
Patterson said he saw a broken second-floor window covered with plastic wrap where the ladder was.
“I thought he said, ‘Let me in.” But the next thing I know, I get up, I walk around, look out the windows, and I saw nothing.”
Sugarcreek Township Police showed up a few minutes later
The woman told Patterson that she did not know about her neighbor, except for her first name.
“She is an active duty Air Force officer,” she said.
The neighbor said investigators did not tell her anything about what happened inside the second-story condominium.
“I did see them remove her today at around four o’clock in a body bag,” the woman told Patterson.
News Center 7 contacted the Sugarcreek Township Police Chief. He said that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) was in charge of the investigation at Sugarcreek Township.
Sources told News Center 7 that investigators that this is connected to an apparent murder-suicide about 45 minutes away in West Milton.
Patterson said that BCI is also investigating this case.
West Milton Police Chief Doyle Wright told News Center 7 that police have security camera video from the city’s municipal building.
It showed that just after 4 a.m. on Saturday that a man pulled his car into the parking lot. He got out of the car, opened the trunk, and then shot himself.
Chief Wright told News Center 7 that there was no sign that the woman had been shot.
On Saturday night, Huber Heights Police told News Center 7 that at least one of the three dead people lived in the Carriage Trails subdivision in Huber Heights. It is currently unknown if anything happened in Huber Heights.
Patterson spoke with a West Milton woman who lived across the street from the crime scene.
“I figured like being over here would be a little bit safer, quieter, for sure. But, yeah, it doesn’t feel good,” said Leah Brady.
She told Patterson that she and some others in West Milton have the same questions.
“I’m not sure why they would come here, but at least, like, there’s not a killer on the loose,” said Brady.
News Center 7 contacted the Ohio BCI on Saturday.
A spokesperson said that Sugarcreek Township requested its assistance.
Both West Milton and Huber Heights Police said there are no threats to the community.
News Center 7 will continue to update this developing story.
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