Mourners gathered Saturday in Otway at the funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley She was the fiancee of victim Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s attorney general says authorities have no new information to indicate whether there’s an ongoing threat to relatives of eight family members slain in southern Ohio. The burial is immediately following at the Hackworth Hill Cemetary. Funeral services have been held for two victims.
In the meantime, funerals for six members of the Rhoden family are scheduled for tomorrow in West Portsmouth. Funerals for the other six are set for Tuesday.
Rhoden family members were shot in the head at four different homes near Piketon on April 22.
It will be held from noon through 8 p.m.at Roger W. Davis Funeral Home in West Portsmouth.
Some mourners arrived at the church wearing bright orange T-shirts saying “Rhoden Proud, Rhoden Strong” on the front and “In Loving Memory” on the back with the victims’ names.
While authorities have yet to determine a motive and make an arrest in the case, they have said that the killings were “pre-planned”, and that marijuana “grow operations” were found at some of crime scenes.
Tuesday’s funeral honors 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their three children, 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 16-year-old Christopher Jr., and 19-year-old Hanna; and Christopher Rhoden Sr.’s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden.
The Rhoden family’s obituaries are available here. He says the family requested the church space, and the church wanted to help. “I mean, it’s overwhelming”, stated Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini.
Phil Fulton, the church’s pastor, said the community has continued to support the surviving members of the family.
DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said Monday that investigators were still working to find a suspect and had received more than 450 tips and processed more than 100 pieces of evidence pertaining to the investigation.
Clutching lighted candles and launching balloons, hundreds of people have come together to recall eight people killed in a shooting massacre in rural Ohio.
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said he does not want to “pollute” the thinking of potential witnesses by revealing the direction of their investigation.
