In brief: Gunman killed after slaying 7

COPLEY, Ohio – Police said a man in Ohio went on a neighborhood shooting rampage, killing seven and leaving victims in three homes before being shot and killed in a gunfight with a police officer and a former officer.

Copley police said in a news release that the man was in one house with several others Sunday morning when he shot his girlfriend, then ran to a neighboring home and shot her brother and four other people. Investigators say he then chased two bystanders through backyards, shooting one outside a home, before entering another house and shooting one person there. He was killed after he left the home.

They did not release names or additional information about the victims.

Cop-killing suspect left note

SAN DIEGO – An officer shot in the face in an apparently unprovoked attack died Sunday, and investigators found a suicide note left by the suspect who fired the gun, San Diego’s police chief said.

Jeremy Henwood, 36, a four-year veteran of the department, died a day after being shot while sitting alone in his patrol car at a San Diego intersection, Chief William Lansdowne said at an afternoon news conference at police headquarters.

“I could tell you that this was a senseless killing … this was an assassination,” Lansdowne said.

The armed suspect, Dejon Marquee White, 23, was tracked down by police after the attack Saturday and shot to death by officers as he tried to avoid arrest. White wrote a two-page suicide note discovered at his apartment, but it didn’t say how he was going to kill himself or why, according to police.

White was a suspect in another shooting earlier Saturday at an In-N-Out restaurant 14 miles away in El Cajon and had eluded police after a high-speed chase.

Shortly after the restaurant shooting, Henwood was stopped at an intersection when a black Audi with temporary plates came alongside.

“According to witnesses, the suspect vehicle pulled up on the left side of the officer’s vehicle, pointed a gun out of the passenger window and fired at the officer,” a police statement said.

Henwood, 36, was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He had recently returned from a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.

Big Boi arrested on drug charges

MIAMI – Grammy-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi has been arrested in Miami on charges of illegally possessing drugs including Ecstasy and Viagra pills.

The rapper, whose real name is Antwan Patton, was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia on Sunday. According to the Miami-Dade County Corrections website, the 36-year-old Patton was also carrying MDMA, which is the main ingredient in Ecstasy.

The rapper was booked around 1:30 p.m. on $16,000 bond.