COLUMBUS, Ohio – Investigators with the Union County Sheriff’s Office say a Richwood man found dead in his home Wednesday night appears to have been murdered, Sheriff Jamie Patton said.
Deputies and crews from the Leesburg Township Fire Department and the Northern Union County Fire and EMS District responding to a 911 call from a home on Askins Road reporting a man with a head injury at approximately 7:45 p.m. found Arthur Burchett, 67, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the head, Patton said.
Burchett was flown by Careflight helicopter to the OSU Wexner Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at approximately 9:37 pm., said Patton.
An autopsy was scheduled to be conducted Thursday by the Franklin County Coroner’s Office.
Patton says detectives from his office and agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation executed a search warrant at the home and interviewed several witnesses but the investigation is still going on.