NEWARK — Authorities have found more than 60 guns at the Utica home of a man who fatally shot three people, including his former girlfriend and a new police chief, at a Kirkersville nursing home earlier this month.
The Newark Advocate reports the guns were found May 12 at Thomas Hartless’ home just hours after he killed Kirkersville Police Chief Steven Eric DiSario, nurse Marlina Medrano and nurse’s aide Cindy Krantz at a nursing home before killing himself.
A search of Thomas Hartless’s residence on Oakland Avenue yielded two dozen rifles, 21 shotguns, 11 revolvers, five pistols, and three air or pellet guns, according to search warrant returns filed in Licking County Common Pleas Court. A laptop computer, gun case and ammunition also were seized, according to a report in The Columbus Dispatch
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Hartless, 43, used both a shotgun and handgun when authorities say he killed three people Friday morning in the small Licking County village of Kirkersville.
Authorities say Medrano had obtained civil protection orders against Hartless in connection with domestic violence cases.
Hartless was freed in April after his latest domestic violence case. A judge acknowledges “mistakes were made” and says he will review how similar cases are handled. Results of his review could be made public Thursday.
Funerals are scheduled Friday for Medrano and Saturday for DiSario.