Ross County — A sergeant in the Sheriff’s department who was shot at and had to fatally return fire asked the commissioners to help him set up a pioneering program to make mental health available to first responders…three years to the day after the incident.

Sergeant Eric Kocheran, recently retired from the Ross County Sheriff’s office, founded the “KocheranStrong Foundation” after recovering from the shooting. He explained his newly energized initiative to get mental health services available to first responders in Ross County with low or costs and no stigma.

Kocheran had answered the back door of the Sheriff’s department on November 17th, 2022, where 42-year-old Nicholas Mitchell mysteriously told him that someone wanted him to hurt kids and that he wouldn’t do that…so instead he had

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