BY PHILLIP PINA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SABINA, Ohio -- Thirteen years and two days after Tracy Ross was found fatally shot in his car just outside this village of 2,600, Clinton County investigators have arrested a suspect.
A Clinton County grand jury handed down a charge of aggravated murder against Mitchell Gully of Clinton County on Friday in the 1985 death of Mr. Ross, said Clinton County Prosecutor William E. Peele.
Investigators arrested Mr. Gully on Friday, Mr. Peele said. Mr. Gully was in the Clinton County jail Friday night.
Mr. Gully's arrest is the result of a tireless investigation that has persisted for 13 years, Mr. Peele said.
But the prosecutor would not go into detail about what led investigators to suspect Mr. Gully, and why it took so long to make an arrest.
Mr. Ross, 19, was found unconscious and covered in blood on the afternoon of June 24, 1985, in an automobile parked along Roshon Road. The car was just north of Sabina and about three miles from the home of Mr. Ross.
Sheriff investigators at the time said Mr. Ross was alive when found. He was shot about an inch above the left eye.
After being taken to Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Mr. Ross was flown by helicopter to University Hospital in Cincinnati, where he died early the next day.
Investigators questioned several people for days after the death, but officers at the time said they had no apparent motive.
