Few details have been released in the sheriff’s office shooting Sunday

The corner of Bennington Pike in Ravenna Township, near where the shooting took place. Lyndsey Brennan/The Portager

Few details have been released in the sheriff’s office shooting Sunday

- Lyndsey Brennan

At least one deputy from the Portage County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man they say was carrying a handgun and had been harming his spouse in Ravenna Township on Sunday evening. 

The spouse of Matthew J. Morse, 36, had called 911 and told the dispatcher she was taking their two children to a neighbor’s house to avoid further harm from her husband. Arriving at the scene, deputies ordered Morse to put down the gun he was carrying, Chief Deputy Ralph Spidalieri said in a press release

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