Mary Alice Reporting –
More details have been released regarding a Friday shooting incident at the Schneider’s Crossing exit ramp, in Dover.
In the early morning hours, the Ohio State Highway Patrol was on scene with the vehicle and soon called the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office to request a deputy certified in Crisis Intervention Training.
Sheriff Orvis Campbell says that a few law enforcement officers were on scene at around 2:19am and they attempted to talk with the Ohio man for over three hours.
“Trying different avenues to deescalate. I know they brought an ambulance on scene because I know they were hoping to get him some help. I know they brought him some food. Some different options, just a lot of different things they were trying to do to for this individual who was not in any legal trouble at that point, it was just a situation where they clearly identified he was in crisis and needed help.”
Sheriff Campbell notes the radio call that shots had been fired went out at about 5:30am.
“The individual produced a firearm and became violent, and that’s when the shooting took place. From those shots being fired, by both my deputy and patrol units, it was a fatality. The individual is deceased. We’re not releasing his name. He is from Ohio but not from this part of the state.”
Campbell issued his statement shortly after the incident occurred, with the Sheriff’s Office later releasing the name of the man as 34-year old Kendall Floyd Woodard of Dayton.
No one else was injured in the incident.
“BCI is on scene, we’ve had the County prosecutor on scene, and BCI will do all the forensics for us and the Highway Patrol to determine what happened here. From what I can gather here at the scene, and I’ve unfortunately had a lot of experience with this, it really does look like the law enforcement officers made great efforts to resolve this peacefully and try to get this individual some help.”
Campbell praised the extensive efforts done by Troopers and his deputy to try and deescalate the situation and get the man crisis services.
Law enforcement presence, at about 6:15am, on the I-77 off ramp at Schnieder’s Crossing.
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