Yesterday Backwoods Sleuth posted about a shooting in Kirkersville Ohio at an elderly care center. Two women, the town’s new police chief and the gunman all dead.

When I saw it, I commented I know the area well being it is just 20 miles or so east of Columbus on National Road, Route 40 and most likely a domestic shooting by a “bubba” type.

Well, it was. And the guy that did the shooting was a walking time bomb…with a gun.

You know all that crap the NRA says about people need to be able to protect themselves from other guns falling into criminal hands, etc. Well, he is a criminal that was still allowed by this state to have a gun. And now it has caused this guy’s girlfriend her life, a co-worker’s life and that of the police chief. And of course after all that he goes and shoots himself. We’ve seen this how many times?

This is disgusting…I’m going to post some of the low lights…the whole article needs to be read to see how bad this all was.

Newark (OH) Advocate - Kirkersville Shootings

Kirkersville shooter had violent past

KIRKERSVILLE - Before he arrived in the small village of Kirkersville Friday morning, Thomas Hartless had created a trail of court records detailing his violent past, especially toward one of the women he is believed to have killed….

he most recent records in that trail were filed earlier this month, the latest in a nearly six-month long narrative detailing threats of violence and a woman scared for her life.

The woman was 46-year-old Marlina Medrano, who according to court records had been living in Newark with Hartless since approximately August 2016.

The pair had a volatile relationship, detailed in court records and police reports, which ended in tragedy Friday after Hartless went to the Pine Kirk Care Center in Kirkersville and took two people hostage before killing the village’s police chief Steven Eric DiSario, Medrano, who was a nurse at the facility and nurse aide Cindy Krantz.

Earlier this month, Medrano had filed a petition seeking a protection order against Hartless because she was scared to be alone with him and fearful of what he might do.

But records show for the past several months, Medrano had been fearful of the man.

On Dec. 5, Newark Police were called to Medrano’s Westmoor Avenue apartment for a domestic dispute.

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While that case was pending, Hartless was released on bond.

On Jan. 14, Licking County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to Licking Memorial Hospital to speak with Medrano after she had been taken there by Hartless’s family for treatment of injuries.

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On March 6, Utica Police were called to a home down the street from the home of Hartless’s parents on Oakland Avenue for another domestic incident.

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In late March, Hartless was found guilty of all three counts and sentenced to 90 days in jail, however, he was released on April 11. There is no reason for the release given in the court paperwork.

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Sheriff Randy Thorp said it is not yet known if Hartless had been served with a protection order that was put in place after Medrano filed the petition as a temporary measure until a full hearing could be held or if Hartless was permitted to have firearms as a condition of the protection order.

Under Ohio law, those convicted of misdemeanors are permitted to own and possess firearms unless specific court orders prohibit it.

“If the language of the order says to seize firearms, we do,” Thorp said. “We take direction from the court.”

Hartless had been violent with other girlfriends before. According to court records, he kidnapped an ex-girlfriend from a Newark business in July 2009, driving her to Knox County where he assaulted her.

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Hartless was convicted of a felony in that case and spent time in prison, which would bar him from owning a firearm. However, court records show Hartless successfully completed probation in 2014 and was restored to all citizenship rights, thereby reinstating his right to have a weapon.

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Read the whole article for all the detail, but you can see the pattern.

Oh yeah…the police chief:

Funeral arrangements are pending for DiSario, Krantz and Medrano. An official GoFundMe account has been created to help the DiSario family. Area police agencies have warned of fake accounts being created to capitalize on the death of the police chief, who was a father of six children with a seventh on the way and had only been on the job about three weeks.

Welcome to America…