Quiet Lancaster neighborhood shaken by killing ...Middle East

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) - Two people are in police custody after a man was found dead in a wooded area near his home Saturday in Lancaster.

Lancaster Police Chief Nicholas Snyder said Sunday the two suspects and the victim were known to each other, and this was no random act of violence.

Police are releasing more information about the killing after the Fairfield County Coroner ruled the death a "homicide by a gunshot wound."

Lancaster Police posted an update to the department’s Facebook page on Sunday.

Neighbors said the area around where the body was found – the 700 block of South Maple Street -- was a quiet place, with children often outside playing, but normally nothing like the commotion they saw Saturday.

"I know pretty much everybody down here, it’s pretty quiet,” Tristen Walker, who was out riding a skateboard in the neighborhood Sunday, said. “It's just, very surprising thing because it's just quiet little neighborhood right here. Very surprising.”

The next update from police will likely be the identification of the man who was found in a shallow grave in the woods, but neighbors believe they already know who it is.

"He was really kind,” Walker said of the suspected victim. “I've heard he would donate a lot of money to charities. These kids lived down here, he's really nice with them. He would take them riding on his golf cart a lot. He would try to be nice and stuff for them. I was kind of surprised hearing something happened. Like, just this close, with someone that was that close and someone I talked to.  I mean, he was out here on his golf cart, and we rode in just, like, not that long ago, last week," Walker said.

Other neighbors said the man who lived in the home where police were searching was about 80 years old, and that he had lived there for many years. They tried to wrap their minds around what happened while making sense of the news that officials ruled it a homicide.

Officers arrested John Scott, 44, of Laurelville, and Holly McDaniel, 45, of Columbus, in connection with the case. Scott is currently charged with homicide and McDaniel is facing an abuse of a corpse charge.

Snyder said both of the suspects are "technically homeless" and repeated that the victim and suspects knew each other.

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