Richard D. Broadbent, 58, was shot and killed at his Boardman home in Morrow County on March 9, 2022. Memorial notices list his birth as November 12, 1963, and family pages recorded a private gathering in his honor. Public reports say the fatal wound was above his left eye and he was found in the driveway after an argument inside the house.

Investigators focused on a family member who had been at the scene. According to a search-warrant affidavit described in pretrial reporting, Broadbent argued with his adult stepson, who retrieved a semiautomatic handgun; Broadbent ran through the kitchen door toward the driveway and two shots were heard. The stepson left in his mother’s red 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier and later told police he disposed of the gun in the Columbia River near Highway 730. The stepson, identified as 39-year-old Caleb Marion Beehler, turned himself in on March 10, 2022 and was booked on a charge of second-degree murder; a judge later found him guilty after a bench trial in February 2024.

Does anyone have information about Richard Broadbent’s final hours or the people who were at the Boardman home that night?