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Neighbor calls 911: Sugar Creek Township couple were fighting over gun

Cassandra Nist
The Repository
Stark County Sheriff

SUGAR CREEK TWP. – A man was fatally wounded while arguing with a woman over a firearm at their Alabama Avenue SW residence Friday evening, according to 911 calls obtained by the Canton Repository.

A next-door neighbor reported hearing a woman yell over to her home: "Call 911, I need an ambulance and police."

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The neighbor, while speaking with 911 workers and now inside the home where the shooting had taken place, said the couple were arguing over a firearm just prior to the shooting, and David Vogelsong, 53, had been shot.

"I can hear her screaming, 'Wake up! Wake up! I'm scared. ... I don't know what to do," the neighbor cried over the phone.

The woman told the dispatcher that the man was dead.

"They were fighting over guns and he got shot," the woman told a dispatcher.

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The shooting remains under investigation by the Stark County Sheriff's Office.

According to the Sheriff's Office, there have been no arrests or charges as of Tuesday afternoon.

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