More bad news for Northeast Ohio's Amish community:
Deer season is over, except for bow hunters, and deer hunters are apparently required to use slugs and not shot. So if she was accidently shot with a deer gun, one would expect to find a rather large entrance wound that would not be overlooked until she arrived at the hospital. There is no word yet about the autopsy results and what calibre projectile was involved.Many unanswered questions remain as investigators sift through the details surrounding the Thursday night shooting death of a 15-year-old Wayne County girl in Holmes County.Wayne County Sheriff's deputies were called after Rachel M. Yoder was transported with a head wound first to Dunlap and the Akron City Hospital, where it was determined the cause of her injury was a single gunshot wound, according to Capt. Doug Hunter, who said it was only after several hours of investigating that a blood trail led investigators to Holmes County.
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Yoder had been at a work Christmas party at a private residence on Holmes County Road 229. She and a friend left around 10 p.m. and she dropped the friend off at another home along County Road 229 before starting the mile-long trip home, said Holmes County Sheriff Timothy W. Zimmerly.
Her brother was first to notice something was amiss when he saw the horse and buggy Yoder had taken circling in the lane. He notified his father, Melvin Yoder, who went out and found his injured daughter lying on the ground outside the buggy, Zimmerly said.
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"Like anything else, people should report suspicious activity and be alert of their surroundings, however, there is nothing to suggest this victim was doing anything inappropriate or acting in any type of careless manner," . . . [the sheriff] . . .said. "She wasn't engaged in any type of activity that would cause her to be the victim of a violent crime. Here is a 15-year-old girl, minding her own business, who is victimized. It's an isolated incident and we don't know the motive. What more can you do?"
RIP Rachel, godspeed on your final journey home.