COLUMBUS – Authorities from three states were on the lookout for a 23-year-old man who is considered a person of interest in a triple murder in southern Ohio.
UPDATE (8:49 A.M.): The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office reports Devin Holston (above, left) was recovered
Aaron Lawson’s blue Chevy truck was spotted by deputies on a country road at about 12:30 a.m. and a pursuit began but Lawless says Lawson (above, right) crashed the truck into a ditch on SR 141 at Lawrence County Road 44S and fled on foot into a wooded area.
Anyone who may know the whereabouts of Aaron Lawson is urged to contact the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office at 740-532-3525.
Police officers from village agencies, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the Ashland, Ky., police, and a K-9 unit from the Huntington, W. Va., police assisted in the search, Lawless says.
Devin Holston, 7, lived at the home on State Route 93 in Pedro where three adults had been shot to death and had not been seen since before the murders were reported at about 7:22 p.m., Lawrence County Sheriff Jeff Lawless said in a report on WBNS 10-TV.
Deputies called to a mobile home on state Route 93 found three adults who had been shot to death and a fourth victim in another home nearby, suffering from stab wounds to the neck and head. Lawless says the stabbing victim was flown by helicopter to Cabell Huntington Hospital.
While at the scene, Lawless says his deputies were alerted that Devin was missing and an extensive search of the property, neighbor’s houses, friends’ and relatives’ houses and the nearby woods by sheriff’s Deputies, the Lawrence County Drug and Major Crimes Task Force, and the state Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation but Devin was not located, Lawless said.
The names of the victims were not released Thursday morning pending positive identification and notification of next of kin. Lawless says the bodies of the victims will be transported to Hamilton County for autopsies.