The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says deputies shot and killed a man who refused to put down his gun and pointed it at deputies on Sunday, November 25. The incident began at about 8:30pm when the man and his girlfriend began arguing at a mobile home in Pleasant Acres on Smeltzer Road.
When the argument became more heated, the woman and several neighbors called authorities. The woman told dispatchers that her boyfriend, 40-year-old Byron Holveck, had fired a gun and threatened to kill her and her young daughter.
Two unidentified deputies responded to the scene and said they found Holveck in the yard firing his gun into the air. The deputies reported they ordered Holveck to drop the gun, but he refused and then pointed the weapon in their direction.
It was at that point that deputies said they fired their weapons, striking Holveck in the lower body. He was taken to Marion General Hospital and then flown to Grant Medical Center, where he later died.
Because the shooting involved a sheriff’s deputy, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the continuing investigation.
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