FBI questions 3 in killing of Ohio woman

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A 4-year-old boy left unharmed at a highway rest area by a gunman who killed his mother had been taught to recite his home address in case of emergencies, his father said Monday.



The boy was discovered at a central Ohio rest stop Friday by travelers from Maryland. The boy told them a strange man had shot his mother in their home, authorities said. Information that the boy gave authorities led them to his home, where his mother’s body was found.

“He’s a very sharp kid,” Eddie Nelson, the boy’s father, said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. “He’s like a sponge, he just soaks everything up. My wife, especially, insisted that we work on him learning his address, learning the phone numbers, just important things … a lot of things people would take for granted and it saved him.”

The FBI was questioning three men in the fatal shooting of the boy’s mother, Jennifer Nelson, 29.

The men were taken into custody Sunday evening at a house near the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas said. No charges had been filed.

Authorities in Dayton planned to discuss the case at a news conference Monday.

Vickie Nelson, the boy’s grandmother and Jennifer Nelson’s mother-in-law, said her son’s car had been stolen in Columbus about a week and a half before Christmas. She said she believed the person who stole the car obtained personal information about where the Nelsons live.

Nelson said his son, William, had not talked much about the ordeal.

“He’s still terrified,” Nelson said. “I don’t know that he fully understands what’s going on. He’s just in total shock right now.”

Nelson said he would not take his son back to the house where he had witnessed his mother’s death.

“I’m doing everything I can to bring a little bit of home to him,” Nelson said. “We’re going to see counselors, and I’m going to take advice from them and just try to keep moving forward.

“It’s going to hurt, but it’s not going to help William if we’re just constantly distraught about it. We have to try to get over it.”


Source: chroniclet.com