UPDATE @ 3 p.m. May 27, 2016:
The Pike County Coroner Dr. David Kessler signed all the death certificates which provide a few more details about how each victim was killed, according to the Columbus Dispatch. We are working to obtain official copies from the Pike County Health Department:
Chris Rhoden Sr. — Shot in head, torso and extremities
Chris Rhoden Jr. — Shot multiple times in head
Hanna Rhoden— Shot multiple times in head
Dana Rhoden— Shot multiple times in head
Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden— Shot multiple times in head
Hannah Gilley— Shot multiple times in head
Gary Rhoden— Shot multiple times in head
Kenneth Rhoden — Single shot in the head
The official causes of their deaths remain pending while the coroner’s office awaits results of toxicology and blood tests.
FIRST REPORT May 26, 2016:
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said he will spend all day Friday in Pike County reviewing evidence from last month's shootings that killed eight.
DeWine said state investigators are building a case "with one clue after the other," but did not indicate they were any closer to finding the individual or individuals behind the April 22 shootings that killed members of the Rhoden family.
“I get a briefing everyday on the phone from my investigators,” DeWine said in Dayton during a tour of a charter school. “Tomorrow, I will have the opportunity to sit down with them for a good part of the day and just go through all the evidence that they’ve uncovered so far and see exactly where we are.”
DeWine reiterated the case will likely not “be settled overnight.”
“I’ve likened it to a 1,000 piece puzzle,” DeWine said. “You find one piece, you put it in a puzzle. You find another piece and you put it in a puzzle, but it takes a while before you start to even see any kind of picture.”
DeWine made the comments during a flurry of news-making Thursday in Dayton. Additionally, he told a charter school official he is running for governor in 2018 and called the Obama administration's directive on transgender students using bathrooms matching gender identity "absurd."
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