'Suicide-by-Cop Scenario' in Shooting ; Man, 26, Killed by West Milton Police, Was Despondent Over Marriage Problems

Dayton Daily News › July 26, 2005

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WEST MILTON -- Despondent over his deteriorating marriage, 25- year-old James J. Sowry recently remarked he wanted to kill himself, his mother said Monday.

"You can't do that," Ruby Sowry, 56, recalled telling her son. "You won't go to heaven." So Sowry said he would find some other way to kill himself, his mother said.

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'Suicide-by-Cop Scenario' in Shooting ; Man, 26, Killed by West Milton Police, Was Despondent Over Marriage Problems

About 12:40 a.m. Saturday, two West Milton police officers shot Sowry after he came at them with a bread knife at his house ...

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