Firefighter accused of killing cheerleading coach he called second mom, then responding to scene he set: cops

A firefighter successful Ohio is accused of sidesplitting a pistillate helium called a 2nd mother, who was besides a varsity cheerleading coach.

The Darke County Sheriff's Office said successful a Facebook station that firefighters were responding to a location occurrence successful Ansonia, Ohio, connected April 10 erstwhile they discovered the assemblage of 50-year-old Ericka Kramer. Authorities allege that Peyton Beam, a firefighter, started the occurrence successful Kramer's home, past killed her.

"(He) was called retired arsenic a firefighter to respond to this scene. Under the guise of being a firefighter, helium was 1 of the archetypal radical to get to the spot with the location connected fire," the prosecutor’s bureau said during a enslaved hearing, according to WHIO.

Beam is simply a firefighter with the Ansonia Volunteer Fire Department. He was charged with aggravated execution and aggravated arson.

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Ericka Kramer had an "extraordinary and unbreakable" enslaved with her daughter, according to an obituary. (Ericka Kramer/Facebook)

Officials said that Kramer was successful the location minutes earlier the fire. Prosecutors said during the proceeding that Kramer was changeable 4 times.

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"The unfortunate successful this substance was executed by the defendant. She was changeable doubly successful the backmost and doubly successful the head," the prosecutor’s bureau said.

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Peyton Beam was arrested connected execution charges aft allegedly sidesplitting Ericka Kramer. (Miami Valley Jails)

Prosecutors said it's their content that Beam lit Kramer's gasoline-drenched assemblage connected occurrence and near the house.

John Rion, Beam's attorney, said the fishy did workplace enactment with Kramer and called her a 2nd mother, adding that helium would ne'er wounded her.

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"We’d beryllium precise funny successful ballistics successful this case, precise funny successful immoderate grounds different than inference," Rion said.

Beam's enslaved was acceptable astatine $5 million.

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Ericka Kramer was a varsity cheer manager and a parent of 1 child. (Ericka Kramer/Facebook)

Kramer was a varsity cheerleading manager astatine Ansonia Local School successful summation to being a parent of 1 child.

"The Ansonia Athletic Department is saddened to perceive of the passing of our Varsity Cheerleading Head Coach, Ericka Kramer. Coach Ericka volition beryllium profoundly missed. Please support the Kramer Family successful your thoughts and prayers. FOREVER A TIGER," the schoolhouse wrote successful a Facebook post.

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According to an obituary for Kramer, she had an "extraordinary and unbreakable" enslaved with her daughter, which shaped her life.

"A emotion truthful heavy that it defined her full world. Everything she did was rooted successful that connection, and the joyousness she recovered successful being a parent shone done successful each portion of her life," the obituary states. "Ericka volition beryllium remembered for her boundless kindness and selflessness. She was the benignant of idiosyncratic who would springiness the garment disconnected her backmost without hesitation, ever putting others earlier herself. Her warmth, generosity, and genuine tone made the satellite a amended place, and words genuinely autumn abbreviated successful capturing conscionable however singular she was."