Michael Shane Fisher

Deadly force

Michael Shane Fisher, had tried to commit suicide earlier in the summer by jumping into the Ohio River after his 4-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son drowned. Fisher had jumped from the William S. Ritchie Jr. Bridge after negotiating with police for 45 minutes; he survived the 75-100 foot fall. The day of the shooting, police said a trooper responding to an unrelated call and heard gunshots coming from the Fisher residence, and that the trooper shot Fisher after an alleged altercation. Witness accounts of the shooting differed from that of the state police. A witness said the trooper shot Fisher three times, Fischer hit the ground and then the trooper got out of the car and shot him three more times.