Lee charged with murder in two shooting deaths
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MOUNT GILEAD The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office has charged Brian A. Lee, 39, of Marengo with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Linda Vannatta and Brandon Petty.
Leeann N. Kinder, 27, of Marengo has been charged with two counts of complicity to murder.
Sheriff John Hinton has not released the names of the other two shooting victims “at this time due to those names not being public record. We will continue to update the public as the investigation develops,” he said Tuesday evening.
Lee was apprehended by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office around 9 p.m. Monday. The shootings took place in Harmony Township at about 4:25 a.m. that day.
A Morrow County man has been charged with two counts of murder and a female companion charged with complicity in the Monday shooting deaths of a man and woman.
According to Morrow County Sheriff John L. Hinton, Linda Vannatta and Brandon Petty.were fatally shot at about 4:25 a.m. in Harmony Township. Two other shooting victims survived. Neither a motive nor the names of surviving victims has been released.
Brian Lee, 39, of Marengo, a village in Morrow County about 38 miles north of Columbus off Interstate 71, was in the Delaware County Jail and in the process of being extradited to Morrow County.
On May 25, 2021, the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office charged Brian A. Lee, 39 of Marengo with 2 counts of Murder in connection with the shooting deaths of Linda Vannatta, 57 and Brandon Petty, 38 early Monday morning in Harmony Township.