Stephanie Ann Chaney, 61, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was shot and killed on January 29, 2022. The shooting took place at a residence on Hickory Trail in the Rocky Fork Lake area. Her son, Tim J. Johnson II, 40, of Hillsboro, contacted the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office and admitted to shooting his mother. He was taken into custody, charged with murder, and arraigned in Hillsboro Municipal Court with bond set at $500,000. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation assisted Highland County investigators, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for February 8, 2022.

Chaney was born October 16, 1960, in Portsmouth, Ohio. She was predeceased by both parents, a former husband Tim Johnson, husband Doug Chaney, and several siblings, and is survived by siblings Ricky Horner and Lisa Sheets, a grandson Trenten Johnson, and other relatives. The investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone in the Hillsboro or Rocky Fork Lake area has information about the events leading up to January 29, 2022, please come forward.