CANTON, Ohio -
CANTON, Ohio -- A Canton family answers a knock at the door, suddenly bullets fly, then a 2-year-old girl is dead. Now two men sit in jail, arrested for the murder of Harmoney Sankey.
According to Chief Dean McKimm with the Canton Police Department, 21-year-old William Hiram Ferguson, turned himself into Elyria Police early this morning. The other suspect, 20-year-old Maki Gamayn Ragland, was also arrested this morning without incident in the 1300 block of Ivydale S.W., in Canton.
Just before 10:00 p.m. Thursday, two men knocked on the door of a home on 14th Street, NE in Canton. Daniel Sankey says he thought the men knew his girlfriend's son. He says at first, they were not aggressive.
"He was like 'what's going on?' I said 'not too much', he said 'where is it at?' I'm like, 'where who at, where's what at?' and he was like, 'you know what this is' and I laughed at him.
Sankey says one of the men pulled out a gun. First, he pistol whipped Daniel Sankey, then shot him in the leg. "I don't know if he thought the blow was gonna knock me out or what, but I jumped up, he got scared, jumped back and shot me, and my grand baby was running by at that time."
Sankey believes the bullet that went through his leg, struck Harmoney in the chest or back. "She was just starting to talk," he said. "It's devastating because the baby just turned two, she had her whole life, just started, just started and he just took it away."
After the shooting, both men ran. "He shot my dog, my dog got a wound in his head, so I'm thinking he came out behind him and my dog charged him and he shot my dog in the head, but it just grazed him, it didn't kill him," said Sankey.
Sankey believes the robbers got away with $27. "He didn't have to shoot, he didn't have to do nothing, we didn't have nothing in the house," he said.
Charges have been filed against both men. They're charged with complicity to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and aggravated robbery.
The family has established a fund in the name of Harmoney Rose Sankey. Donations can be made at any First Merit Bank.
According to Chief Dean McKimm with the Canton Police Department, 21-year-old William Hiram Ferguson, turned himself into Elyria Police early this morning. The other suspect, 20-year-old Maki Gamayn Ragland, was also arrested this morning without incident in the 1300 block of Ivydale S.W., in Canton.
Just before 10:00 p.m. Thursday, two men knocked on the door of a home on 14th Street, NE in Canton. Daniel Sankey says he thought the men knew his girlfriend's son. He says at first, they were not aggressive.
"He was like 'what's going on?' I said 'not too much', he said 'where is it at?' I'm like, 'where who at, where's what at?' and he was like, 'you know what this is' and I laughed at him.
Sankey says one of the men pulled out a gun. First, he pistol whipped Daniel Sankey, then shot him in the leg. "I don't know if he thought the blow was gonna knock me out or what, but I jumped up, he got scared, jumped back and shot me, and my grand baby was running by at that time."
Sankey believes the bullet that went through his leg, struck Harmoney in the chest or back. "She was just starting to talk," he said. "It's devastating because the baby just turned two, she had her whole life, just started, just started and he just took it away."
After the shooting, both men ran. "He shot my dog, my dog got a wound in his head, so I'm thinking he came out behind him and my dog charged him and he shot my dog in the head, but it just grazed him, it didn't kill him," said Sankey.
Sankey believes the robbers got away with $27. "He didn't have to shoot, he didn't have to do nothing, we didn't have nothing in the house," he said.
Charges have been filed against both men. They're charged with complicity to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and aggravated robbery.
The family has established a fund in the name of Harmoney Rose Sankey. Donations can be made at any First Merit Bank.
