Thursday, March 28

‘Active shooter’ situation reported at VA clinic in Ravenna, Ohio


Police officers talk outside the Ravenna VA Clinic on North Chestnut Street on Wednesday morning during an active shooter incident.

The area around the Ravenna VA Clinic on North Chestnut Street has been reopened and a lockdown at Ravenna High School has been lifted after a man reportedly fired a shot from a gun into the air at the clinic on Wednesday morning.

According to a press release from the VA, at about 8:15 a.m. a clinic employee saw a man outside the clinic kneeling on the ground. The employee notified the clinic’s security officer, who went out to talk to the man.

“At that time, the man fired one shot into the air near the flagpole outside the clinic,” according to the VA statement. “The security guard ran back into the building, secured the building, called local authorities and began enacting the VA’s emergency response plan.”

According to the statement, Ravenna police were able to get the man to surrender with no injuries to himself or others. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

VA officer on the phone leaving the Ravenna VA Out Patient Clinic on Chestnut street.

Speidel’s pharmacy owner watches from across the street, recounts scene

Paul Marva, owner of Speidel’s Medical Arts Pharmacy in the North Chestnut Medical Arts building next door to the VA clinic, said he pulled into his parking lot at about 8:30 a.m., just as police were arriving.

He said he watched the scene unfold from his pharmacy window. He said around 10 a.m. or so, he saw an elderly man walk out of the VA with what looked like a pistol and drop it to the ground before being arrested and taken away in an ambulance.

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