The police officer was found wounded outside the Danville Municipal Building.
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A later Gilbert tweet mentioned a chase through a field and a second suspect, also in custody.
NBC4 has a crew on the way to Knox County. She said that her ex-boyfriend Herschel Ray Jones had left with weapons and was looking to kill an officer. In a 2011 case, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity before changing his plea to guilty. Dispatchers then tried to contact the Danville officer on duty, but were unsuccessful.
A man accused of hunting police officers was in custody on Monday after an officer in the central OH village of Danville was found dead, his gun and cruiser missing, Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer said.
Officer Thomas Cottrell was found dead without his service weapon or cruiser just before midnight, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s department.
The name of the officer has not been officially released.
Jones was arrested outside a Danville home around 1:30 a.m. Monday.
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Danville is located about 100 miles southwest of Cleveland, about 60 miles northeast of Columbus.
