Sheriff identifies woman, suspicious of the crash, shoots in Darke Co. – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio

Darkke County – Darke County Sheriff Mark Whittaker made more details on a shootout and a crash on Thursday afternoon.

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As reported in the News Center 7 at 6, Around 2:15 p.m. Randy Ward II was asked by Josiah “Joe” Maloon, 57, in the 2500 block of the State Route 571 to be his house in order to be a “transaction”, said Whittaker.

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Ward told the MPs when he arrived at Maloon, he came out and shot down several times.

Whittaker said that Maloon brutally beat his wife Juanita Maloon (53), just before Ward arrived in his house.

There was a chase where Joe continued to shot and his car RAM.

“I'm shot and I go 100 miles per hour Lightsville Road North. He tries to run me off the street. He has a gun. He shoots at me, ”said the dispatchers in a call.

The chase ended with an accident on the Coletown Lightsville Road, in which Maloon was killed.

Mussel sleeves and a white powdery substance were found in the entrance of Joes Haus. Whittaker said that further tests are necessary to determine what the powdery substance is.

Ward was seriously injured at the shootout and flown to the Miami Valley Hospital.

Whittaker said he believed that Joe was the only threat.

“I have the feeling that the community is safe from an active threat or a shooter at this point,” said the sheriff.

We will continue to follow this story.

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