CINCINNATI — In the weeks before he was shot and killed by police in Adams County , Christopher Lindner's wife was granted a restraining order and told the courts she was "afraid of what he might do with his guns."

Lindner was killed Friday after he led the Adams County Sheriff's Office and Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) on a pursuit to his Manchester home. There, law enforcement asked him to surrender multiple times before Lindner came out of the home with a gun and was shot by officers, OSHP said. Lindner was pronounced dead at the scene.

He is the son of Carl Lindner III, the co-CEO of American Financial Group and the CEO and majority owner of FC Cincinnati. The Lindners have been a prominent Cincinnati family involved in several businesses for decades, including United Dairy Farm

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