<p>A woman working at a Dollar Tree in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> was brutally murdered by a man with a machete on New Year&#8217;s Day.</p>
<p>Chronicles Magazine Senior Writer Pedro Gonzalez, who lives near where the murder took place, shared the story on Twitter Monday. He also shared a GoFundMe for the family&#8217;s funerary expenses. According to local news reports, the man allegedly walked into the store and slashed the woman to death, before turning himself in to police.</p>
<p>&#8220;On New Year’s Day, Bethel Bekele entered a Dollar Tree with a machete, approached Keris Riebel while she was working, and hacked her to death,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1610016320749174784?s=20&amp;t=wlEs0N2cFxf56PWKs6DQ8Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gonzalez</a> wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Police don’t have a motive and, for some odd reason, this isn’t a national story.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Riebel, 22, was just married, which is why pretty all public pictures of her are proposal/wedding related,&#8221; he added in a <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1610016973206786048?s=20&amp;t=KoJrmQweQ9lrkjiRyxRJOQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> that linked to her family&#8217;s GoFundMe. As of the publication of this piece, the fundraiser has taken in more than $38,000, surpassing the $30,000 goal.</p>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1udh08x">The Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Police Department released a statement of their own on Facebook detailing the events of the day. &#8220;On January 01, 2023, at 4:25 p.m. the Upper Sandusky Police Department was dispatched to Dollar Tree for a man waving a weapon around inside the store,&#8221; police chief Jared Lucas wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UpperSanduskyPolice/posts/538558128301611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;Before police arrived, the man left the store. Officers arrived and found a female employee deceased. A short time later an officer located a suspect and he was taken into custody. Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is currently processing the crime scene. The Wyandot County Major Crimes Unit is currently investigating the incident.&#8221;</div>
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<p>Lucas added some details to the story in an interview with local news outlet <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/-dollar-tree-store-employee-worker-weapon-woman-dead-upper-sandusky-police-northwest-ohio-wyandot-county-murdered-with-machete-attack-new-years-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC 6</a>. According to Lucas, the suspect, &#8220;Bekele entered the store with the machete, approached Riebel, and struck her numerous times with the machete.&#8221; He said that other people were in the store at the time. Bekele then drove to the Wyandot County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Deputies there approached him, and he surrendered to them.</p>
<p>The suspect has no apparent criminal history, and police are still investigating the connection between him and the victim. It is unclear what the motive was.</p>
<p>The machete attack in Ohio came just a day after three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-nypd-officers-injured-in-new-years-eve-machete-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> police officers were attacked by a man wielding a machete.</p>
<p>The attack happened at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue outside the security screening zone Saturday at roughly 10:11 p.m., NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said during a news conference, noting that she was sharing preliminary information.</p>
<p>The suspect, identified as a 19-year-old man, approached one officer from behind “unprovoked” and attempted to strike him over the head with a machete, Sewell said. The suspect then allegedly struck two other officers in the head with the weapon.</p>
<p>One of the officers shot the suspect in the shoulder, Sewell said.</p>
<p>All three officers were taken to a hospital and are in stable condition. The suspect was also taken to the hospital for treatment. The NYPD shared a photo of the weapon allegedly used in the attack on social media.</p>
<p>One officer, identified as an eight-year veteran, sustained a laceration to the head. Another officer, who graduated from the police academy on Friday, suffered a skull fracture and large laceration, Sewell said.</p>
<p><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.</em></p>

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