Deputy Shot In Tiffin As Police Confront And Kill Armed Attacker

TIFFIN, OH — A Seneca County sheriff's deputy was shot responding to a domestic dispute Tuesday afternoon that left one person stabbed and the attacker mortally wounded. A Tiffin police officer shot the attacker after he holed up inside a house with a rifle and sniper scope and then opened fire on officers, according to authorities.

The gunman was pronounced dead around 2:30 p.m. The stabbing victim and the deputy were flown to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. The deputy is in stable condition, according to Sheriff Jim Eckelberry, who said a bullet went through the deputy's shoulder.

The condition of the stabbing victim is not yet known. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the investigation of the officer-involved shooting and the crime scenes.

The police response began at 1:26 p.m. when a 911 call was placed about a man with a gun at 133 Schonhardt St., according to a statement from Tiffin police. A woman told dispatchers her ex-boyfriend tried to take her out of her car and she managed to get away from him and flee on foot. The woman told police her ex had a rifle and tried to smash her car window with the butt of the rifle, police said.

Seneca County deputies were dispatched to the home of Scott Bloomfield, 34, to search for him and a yellow Chevy Silverado pickup truck. The sheriff's office received a 911 call at 2 p.m. reporting a man entering 92 N. Tecumseh Trail and threatening the occupants. The woman who called said Bloomfield was threatening to shoot her son, police said, and during the confrontation ultimately stabbed the son.

The woman escaped with her son and took him to Mercy Hospital in Tiffin. Meanwhile, deputies and police officers converged on the property, arriving at about 2:04 p.m. They encountered Bloomfield with the rifle and a sniper scope, police said, and within a minute a radio call went out: "Officer down, officer down" and "shots fired."

Police officers immediately returned fire, according to Tiffin police, and Bloomfield was on the ground within a minute. The wounded deputy and the attacker both were administered medical aid, police said.

Police have not released the names of the deputy or the wounded son.