(CNN) -- A gunman on Friday shot and killed a central Ohio village's new police chief -- a father of six who'd been on the job just a few weeks -- in an alley before entering a nursing home and killing two employees, police said. The slain police chief, Steven Eric Disario, had headed the Kirkersville Police Department for only about three weeks, Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp said. Kirkersville Police Chief Steven Eric Disario, 36, was responding to a report about a man in a street with a firearm when he saw the gunman an an alley behind Pine Kirk Care Center nursing home shortly before 8 a.m., Thorp said. We have four people dead a police chief here in this very small community who's a father at six a gunman they believe and into nursing home employees. Disario, a father of five or six children who was expecting another child, had only been police chief for around three weeks, Thorp said.
A shooting attack at a nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio, kills four people, including a police chief and the shooter.