Police were searching for answers Thursday after a mother of three was found shot to death.
According to family members, Amy Aldrich was shot and killed inside a home, located at 617 Bartram Ave., at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Police said that a person of interest, who family identified as Aldrich’s ex-boyfriend, was taken into custody and questioned, 10TV’s Tanisha Mallett reported.
One family member said that he heard as many as eight shots fired.
According to family members, Aldrich, 30, moved to Paulding County in northwest Ohio after her ex-boyfriend threatened her.
Family members said that Aldrich returned to Marion for a child support hearing regarding her youngest child. Investigators said that the child’s father did not show up in court.
David Reed, Marion family court director, said that Aldrich came to him in November asking for an emergency protection order.
“She had felt there had been some other things going on, some threatening, a history of threats, and she felt she was in danger,” Reed said.
According to court documents, an original protection order was filed by Aldrich in December 2010 against her ex-boyfriend.
She said that he had pointed a revolved at her. Aldrich terminated the order a year later, court documents stated.
“She felt that they needed to have contact in order to raise their child in a civil matter, and she felt she was not in danger and could do that,” Reed said.
Police said that Aldrich was waiting for a ride at her cousin’s home when she was shot.
“I was supposed to pick her up,” Brenda Cook, Aldrich’s aunt, said Wednesday. “I was supposed to take her home.”
Aldrich’s cousin, Jade Wren, said that that Aldrich had three children.
“These kids have to grow up without a mom,” Wren said Wednesday. “It should not have to be this way.”
Aldrich’s ex-boyfriend was in jail on Thursday on charges relating to heroin possession and assault.
Marion police Maj. Bill Collins said that the assault charge stemmed from a scuffle Cook had with a corrections officer while he was being taken to a cell, Mallett reported.
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