Mentor Police have identified the victims and suspect who died in a shooting at a mobile home park Thursday.
Police responded to the mobile home park in the 7100 block of Mentor Avenue on the border of Willoughby shortly after 4:30 p.m. Thursday when a resident reported hearing shots fired. Officers arrived within minutes of receiving the call. They encountered a chaotic scene of gunfire and multiple victims.
The victims
According to the department, officers moved in and pulled the victims from the area while being shot at by the 47-year-old suspect.
The first officer on scene found the first victim, 62-year-old Laura Colon, the mobile home park's property manager, down in the street. She died at the scene.
Officers found the second victim, Terrance Mathis, 63, nearby. Mathis had been shot in the stomach. An officer pulled him to safety and carried him to firefighters. Mathis was taken to a nearby hospital and later died.
Police found a third victim, 81-year-old Thomas Galiza, who also died.
The only survivor of the shooting was a 63-year-old man who was hit in the shoulder and thigh. Authorities said he's recovering in the hospital and is in stable condition.
All of the victims had been shot before the four officers arrived at the mobile home park.
Not a single shot was fired by police, the department said.
SWAT response and evacuation
Police closed off Mentor Avenue from Kirtland Road to State Route 306 while the SWAT team responded.
Around 30 residents from the park were evacuated and taken to Mentor Senior Center as a precaution.
The suspect
Authorities used a drone and flew it inside the suspect's home, where they saw him down on the ground, having sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The suspect has been identified as Jason Norris, 47, an Army veteran. According to authorities, multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in Norris' home. Among the weapons were two handguns, an AR-15 and a bolt-action rifle.
What may have prompted the shooting
Police have yet to determine a motive.
Norris was in the process of being evicted from his home.
Police say that before the shooting, he went outside and brandished two handguns and then shot the property manager, Colon. He also fired shots at several others who tried to help her. After that, he barricaded himself in this trailer.
Police said officers had responded to the location earlier in the day for Norris' complaint against a neighbor regarding a camera facing his home. Police said during a news conference that the neighbor was one of the victims killed in the shooting.
You can watch the news conference below:
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