Newark Police ask the public’s help providing information into a weekend shooting.
Police say 39-year-old Kevin Skeese, was shot in his own home at 245 West Church Street in Newark on Sunday evening around 7:20.
When officers arrived they found only a female witness and her teenage son hiding in a bedroom.
Authorities said Skeese was in the home’s laundry room when two suspects forced their way in through the back door and shot him multiple times.
The suspects, a white male and an African American male fled the scene in an unknown direction.
Skeese also fled to a friend’s residence nearby.
Newark Fire Department responded and transported Skeese to Ohio State University Hospital.
Police continue to investigate the incident and ask anyone with information to call their detective bureau at 740-670-7215Â or their crime stoppers hotline at (740) 349-6888.
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