COPLEY TWP.: A gunman went on a rampage Sunday morning, killing seven people in three locations before being killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.Copley police Chief Michael Mier said five people were found shot to death outside a home on Goodenough Avenue, two people were killed at separate locations on Schocalog Road and the shooter also was killed.An 11-year-old is among the dead, the Associated Press and WKYC are reporting.Gilbert and Nancy Elie, who live next door to the shooting scene, said they were in their basement recreation room when they heard noises and went upstairs to investigate.They heard a woman moaning and asking for help, Nancy Elie said.She said they saw a woman and her husband, whom they had known for about 10 years since they moved onto the street, lying in the driveway where they had been shot.Gilbert Elie said he ventured outside to check on the woman and saw two more people in a black Chevrolet minivan who also had been shot. A woman was lying over a teenage girl, as if trying to protect her, Gilbert Elie said. He believed they were dead also.Gilbert Elie yelled to his wife to call 911.“I said, ‘Call the police. Get them out here. These people are laying here, dead,’ ” Gilbert Elie said.He said another woman, who lives in a red house between his home and the driveway where the people were killed, came out of her house and asked him what was happening.“I was talking to her when her boyfriend came out of the house behind her and shot her three or four times,” Gilbert Elie said.He said he took refuge from the shooter, whom he said was the woman’s boyfriend. “I peeked out from behind the car and saw her fall off the porch and down the steps,” he said.He then heard police arrive and heard people running behind the houses through the woods and more shots being fired.A prayer vigil will be held tonight at the Copley Community Park on Copley Road east of the Copley Circle at 7:30. Shots-fired callCopley police received a 911 call at 10:56 a.m. reporting several gunshots fired on Goodenough Avenue, Mier said.A second 911 call came from a female who indicated her boyfriend was involved in the shooting, the chief said.After locating several victims on Goodenough, police spotted a suspect and chased him to Schocalog Road, where the chief said “he engaged the officers in gunfire and the suspect has been killed as well.”Names of the victims were not immediately available and Mier said a motive for the shootings is not known.“Our job is extremely complicated,” the chief said.The Associated Press is reporting that the shooting followed a family argument.A ninth person —a female — survived the shooting and is in intensive care at an area hospital, Mier said.Schocalog Road was blocked off to the public at Copley Road, and police officers from Copley and Bath townships, Akron and Fairlawn, as well as Summit County sheriff’s deputies, were on the scene. Officials from the Summit County Medical Examiner and prosecutor’s office and officers from the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation were also at the scene, the chief said.“We have a lot of work” to do and officers are processing several crime scenes, including two locations on Goodenough and two on Schocalog, Mier said.“It’s going to be a long time before we know any more,” he said.Dealing with such a dramatic crime scene has been tough for investigators, he said.Officials from Summit County Victim Assistance were on their way to provide counseling, the chief said.“It’s a very serious situation,” Mier said.“I heard it was over an argument, but I don’t know what could cause anybody to kill people,” Gilbert Elie said.