Body cam shows Brian Mason confessing to the accidental fatal shooting of Michelle Elliott
By: An arrest has been made after a 57-year-old woman was found dead in a home in Miami County Monday.
Deputies were dispatched to the 11000 block of North Montgomery County Line Road in Union Township for a welfare check around 7:30 p.m.
Brian E. Mason, 58, Union, walked into the Miamisburg Police Department and told the officers he had shot a woman Sunday evening and wanted to report it, Miami County Sheriff Dave Duchak told News Center 7 Tuesday.
Upon deputies’ arrival at the home, they received no response. Deputies looked through a window, and blood was seen, and deputies forced entry into the house where Michelle L. Elliott, 57, was found dead, suffering what appeared to be a gunshot wound. Elliot lived at the residence, according to Duchak.
After conducting the welfare check, Miami County Sheriff detectives traveled to the Miamisburg Police Department to interview Mason.
During the initial investigation, detectives uncovered that Mason and Elliott had a platonic friendship since childhood; however, detectives are still looking into their relationship to discover more details.
The home is located in a rural part of Miami County, close to both Darke and Montgomery counties.
“We rarely have any calls up there. When we do, there’s nothing. We have no call history of any violence or anything at that address, just some minor nuisance-type calls. There’s no history of violence or anything like that,” Duchak said.
Mason told detectives he was living in his car and had been helping Elliot with something at the house, at which time detectives understand the shooting had occurred.
Detectives await a search warrant to search Mason’s car for additional evidence connected to the shooting.
“We rarely have homicides in this county. The few we do, usually, they’re just really unusual circumstances. And this seems to be more of those cases,” Duchak said
Mason was taken into custody at the Miamisburg Police Department, transported, and booked into the Miami County Jail. He was arraigned this morning on murder charges with bond set at $1,000,000.