LOGAN, Ohio - A man repeatedly shot his adult son and two sisters-in-law in his living room, killing them in front of his terminally ill wife, then fatally shot himself on the front porch as family tension about the cancer-stricken woman’s care apparently boiled over, authorities said.
An earlier dispute about whether the woman should have been fed tea and toast or the orange her husband had peeled for her apparently set off the shooter, Paul Gilkey, 63.
Gilkey spared his wife and allowed his grown stepson to leave unharmed, Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said Tuesday. The stepson drove away from the property, a house on a wooded hillside in rural southeastern Ohio, to seek a cellphone signal and call for help.
