Uhrichsville, Ohio

From the Dover Times-Reporter of September 25, 2005

Man ‘stable’ after being shot

Roy L. Kenney, 32, of 2468 Bellflower Rd. SE, Port Washington was reportedly in stable condition after he was shot Thursday night when he tried to enter his estranged wife’s residence off Edie Hill Rd. SE, Uhrichsville.

Kenney was shot by Eric Burns, 31, who lives at the residence, about 9 p.m. after Kenney broke into the house. Burns, Kenney’s estranged wife and her two children, ages 10 and 6, locked themselves inside a bedroom.

“(Kenney) took a baseball bat to the bedroom door,” said Tuscarawas County Sheriff Walt Wilson. “Burns used a .22 caliber rifle and shot through the door and struck Kenney.”

Kenney arrived at the house with the baseball bat, and the rifle was in the bedroom, the sheriff said.

Wilson was not sure where Kenney was struck and said he was reportedly in stable condition in Mercy Medical Center at Canton, but a hospital representative said his condition was unavailable.

Burns was held in the Tuscarawas County jail overnight Thursday and released. He will not be charged, said Wilson.