BROOKFIELD Cops: Woman says man begged her to be shot

The dead man's family doesn't believe he threatened to kill anyone.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
BROOKFIELD -- Brock Engle handed over his shotgun to a woman police say he had abducted earlier on the streets in Warren. He begged her to shoot him.
She complied.
Trumbull County deputies say Lisa Cogar, 37, told them she shot Engle once in the back after he instructed her that if she didn't shoot him he would kill her before turning the gun on himself.
She has been charged with one count of voluntary manslaughter.
Cogar told deputies that Engle, 26, of Johnston, and Timothy R. Williams, 33, of Main Street, Kinsman, kidnapped her at knife point Monday evening when she was walking on Olive Street in Warren. She said the two took her to Engle's home and then to a wooded area off state Route 87 in Kinsman.
After arriving in the wooded area, Williams left, Sheriff Thomas Altiere said.
Williams has been charged with one count of kidnapping.
Cogar and Williams pleaded innocent Thursday in Eastern District Court and are in the county jail on $100,000 bonds. Preliminary hearings are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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"What she is saying is not true at all," said Darice Draa, Engle's sister, and Williams' ex-wife.
"My brother was not like that. He wouldn't hurt a fly," Draa added. She noted she doesn't believe he kidnapped Cogar or threatened to kill her.
Cogar told a 911 dispatcher that Engle told her he wanted to die because his girlfriend had broken up with him.
"Not true," says Michelle Emery, Engle's girlfriend. "We were not fighting."
Deputies say, however, that Williams told them that Engle had found a note on his door from his girlfriend saying that they had to talk, and when Engle went to talk to her she wouldn't come to the door.
Family members, however, said Engle and Williams got paid Monday and they think Cogar may have wanted to rob them.
"Brock was not a violent person," Emery said. "He would play with my 15-month-old daughter."
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