Ohio ex-officer indicted, then dead

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a former Ohio police officer apparently shot himself to death as police in Alabama tried to arrest him shortly after he was indicted in a 1991 Ohio murder.

Montgomery County, Ohio, officials and Alabama authorities say 43-year-old Tommy Swint was found dead with a head wound inside his Phenix City, Ala., home Wednesday at about noon. That was an hour after a grand jury in Dayton returned a murder indictment against Swint in the death of a woman found beaten, strangled and left in a brush pile 18 years ago.

Ohio authorities say they used DNA evidence to tie Swint to the death.

Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones says Alabama deputies heard what sounded like a gunshot as they approached the former Trotwood, Ohio, officer’s apartment.