Mentor Trailer Park Fatal Shooting: Active Shooter, 4 Dead, Including Gunman, 1 injured REPORT

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Mentor Trailer Park Shooting: Active Shooter, 4 Dead, Including Gunman, 1 injured – REPORT

Mentor Trailer Park Fatal Shooting: Four people are dead, including the gunman, and one person was wounded in a shooting Thursday at a mobile home park in Mentor, police said.

Officers responded to Mentor Green Mobile Home Park before 5 p.m. for a report of shots fired, said Ante Logarusic, communications director for the City of Mentor.

Three people were killed and another person was wounded after a gunman shot them before barricading himself inside of a mobile home at the park on the 7100 block of Mentor Avenue (Ohio 20), near the border with Willoughby, Logarusic said.

Officers entered the residence hours later and discovered the gunman had died from a self-inflicted gunshot, Logarusic said.

Identities of the three people fatally shot and the suspect have not been released. The wounded person was taken to a local hospital and was listed in stable condition, Logarusic said.

Mentor Avenue from the Willoughby border to Ohio 306 was closed until about 11:15 p.m. as police and paramedics were on the scene. Willoughby police asked people to avoid the area.

A resident of the mobile home park said the residents there are age 55 and older. Another resident said the suspect, a man, lived across the street from her and barricaded himself in that residence. She said she believes he had been evicted.

“He just went crazy,” she said. “There are still people in (the park). Lots of people.”

Scott Skufka, 55, lives less than half-mile away from the mobile home park. He said he heard a gunshot, then a short pause, then five more gunshots at about 4:30 p.m.

“I knew immediately they were gunshots,” he said.

He said he was not afraid because he knew they were in the distance. He also said police responded quickly to the scene.

Some of the park’s residents were evacuated on a Laketran bus and in an ambulance to nearby Cleveland Plumbing Supply on Mentor Avenue before 8 p.m. Police said about 30 displaced residents will spend the night at the Mentor Senior Center while the investigation continues.

Larry Morrow, 79, who has lived at the mobile home park for 23 years, said he was at a bar in Willoughby when the standoff with police began. He said it is usually a very quiet community.

“I know a lot of people there,” he said. “I just hope (the victims) are not someone I know.”

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