Dec 18, 2020
The Ross County Grand Jury returned all 15 of their cases Friday, with five open.
In one, the Ross County Prosecutor's Office reports Chillicothe police officers responded to a disturbance at East Main and Brownell November 19th. They found 21-year-old Christopher D. Howard of South Hickory Street crouching at the church there, holding a sharp object and threatening to harm himself.
He ran, but fell behind a fence. A pursuing officer jumped on top of him to pin him down, but Howard struck the officer at least three times with the "broken pieces of a wooden cross."
For indictments on assault, Howard could get up to a year and a half and $5,000 in fines.