Post by Scumhunter on Feb 10, 2020 1:46:11 GMT -5
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From 13abc.com:
TOLEDO (WTVG) - Tyler McIntoush was a well-liked student at Maritime Academy, by both students and teachers.
"He would dance sometimes out in the hallway, totally inhibited, just knew how to have a good time," Fran Krompak, a counselor at Maritime, said.
But in the summer of 2014, those good times would come to a tragic end. Investigators still have no leads in the July 2014 murder of the high school student.
"I was driving and it was a phone call, and it was 'Tyler McIntoush is dead, we think he has been murdered,'" Krompack said.
At 16 years old, Tyler was shot to death in the early morning hours of July 24th.
"I literally watched it on the news and found out it was my child," Tyler's mother Oleen Clinton said.
That morning, Oleen got home from her second job and Tyler wasn't there.
"I'm thinking that he was over at his dad's or his sister or his grandmother," says Clinton.
But when calls to family and friends didn't find Tyler, she started to wonder if Tyler was the shooting victim she'd heard about earlier that morning when she was watching the news.
"I didn't want to believe it. My daughter was like, I just watched the news," Clinton said, "I was like Sierra, 'We're not going to put those together. We're not going to put that story of Tyler and a child being murdered together because he's not a bad kid.'"
A call to Toledo Police, confirmed her worst nightmare. Tyler had walked his friend Ashley home from work that night. He was walking back to his house on Collingwood when police say he was shot multiple times just a couple of blocks from his house at Collingwood and Boston Place.
"We don't even know exactly how it happened," Toledo Police detective Sgt. Roy Kennedy said. "We had one caller say she heard gunshots, didn't see anything. It wasn't until a passerby found him laying in the sidewalk."
Kennedy goes on to say that it appears to be random.
"We actually checked video at one point to see if he was being followed by somebody, and we found no evidence that he was being followed by anybody," Kennedy said.
Six years of investigating Tyler's murder has produced no credible leads or suspects in this case.
"What my hope is that with this is that it happened long enough ago is that whoever was involved, maybe somebody knew at the time that it happened and they had some loyalty or fear and then maybe now they don't have that loyalty or fear, will come forward," Kennedy said.
Tyler's mother has never given up hope that his killer will be found and held accountable.
"How can I get over losing a child? Senselessly losing a child and not knowing who took my child," Clinton said.
If you have any information on McIntoush's murder, please contact Crime Stopper at 419-255-1111. Tips can be anonymous.
www.13abc.com/content/news/Who-Killed-Tyler-McIntoush-567632991.html
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