CLAYTON — A benefit is being held for a local officer who was shot in the line of duty last month.
Three weeks ago Officer Cody Cecil was at Miami Valley Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.
He was one of two officers who were serving a search warrant on a 22-year-old man wanted for arson, aggravated menacing, and domestic violence.
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The man went inside a neighbor’s home in Clayton and barricaded himself.
That is where he shot at the officers, hitting Cecil in the arm.
Investigators eventually found the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Doctors discharged Cecil from Miami Valley Hospital five days after he got shot.
News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis will be at the benefit and be LIVE during News Center 7 at 6 p.m. and WHIO-TV Tonight at 11 p.m.