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Copley, Ohio police chief Michael Mier begins a news conference, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, giving details concerning the mass killing in Copley, Sunday. Mier confirmed that seven people were murdered, one victim is in the hospital with gunshot wounds and the alleged killer was shot and killed by police. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

Police work to unravel motive in Ohio rampage

COPLEY, Ohio -- Investigators worked Monday to unravel the motive behind a shooting rampage that killed seven people and wounded another in a small Ohio town before the gunman died in a gunfight with police.

Police combed through three homes and searched outside a fourth in a wooded, residential area outside Akron on Sunday, collecting evidence as they tried to piece together what happened during the shootings that shook a quiet neighborhood.

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