Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Ernest Earl Alexander March 12 1979
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From:  Page 6 of the New Holland, Ohio "New Holland Leader", Thursday, 15 March 1979.

			Frankfort Area Youth Shot, Killed in Escape

	A 17-year-old Chillicothe Rt. 3 youth was shot and killed by a Ross 
County sheriff's deputy about 11:30 a.m. Monday after he reportedly attempted 
to escape custody.
	Ernest Earl Alexander, Westfall rd, was shot in the head outside the 
South Central Ohio Regional Juvenile Detention Center by Deputy Forrest Powell, 
50, the sheriff's department said.
	Alexander had been committed to the Ohio Youth Commission Monday after 
being found to be a delinquent child.  He had been charged with a January 22 
breakin at Adena High School and with aiding a March 3 purse snatching.
	When Alexander, handcuffed to another 17-year-old youth, stepped out  
of the deputy's cruiser at the detention center, the pair bolted, refusing to 
heed the deputy's warning to halt, the department said.
	Powell fired three warning shots, the sheriff's department said.  His 
fourth shot struck Alexander in the back of the head, according to the 
department.
	The sheriff's department said its investigation is continuing.
	The youth was born June 3, 1961 in Washington C.H.  He was the son of 
Earl W. and Bertha Lowry Alexander of Chillicothe Rt. 3.
	He was employed at Sambo's restaurant in Chillicothe and had been an 
Adena student.
	He was married  September 17, 1977, to Pamela Watters.
	Surviving in addition to his wife and parents are a daughter, Michelle 
Elizabeth; two sisters, Margie Jay Alexander and Mrs. Douglas (Patricia) Good, 
both of Chillicothe Rt. 3; two brothers, Keith Allen Alexander and Robert 
Wendell Alexander, both of Chillicothe Rt. 3, and a half-brother, Daniel Carl 
Frances, Chillicothe.  Two sisters preceded him in death.
	Funeral service was held 2 p.m. Thursday at the Fisher Funeral Home, 
Frankfort, with Rev. Jack Dorman officiating and burial in Brown's Chapel 
Cemetery, Clarksburg.


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