Son accused of killing former doctor

Murder charges have been filed against a man who blamed an intruder for fatally shooting his father, an ex-doctor convicted of running a pill mill, during a break-in last year at their Plain Township home.

A Franklin County grand jury indicted Jonah B. Lake, 20, on Wednesday on charges of aggravated murder, murder and tampering with evidence in the June 22, 2017, death of his father, 51-year-old Kevin B. Lake.

“The investigation revealed that a home invasion had been staged, and investigators believe Lake’s son Jonah was responsible for the murder,” county Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said in a news release.

The son is in custody and will be arraigned in Common Pleas Court within a week, said Christy McCreary, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor.

Jonah Lake called 911 at about 7 a.m. June 22 from their Schleppi Road home to report the shooting. He said that he and his father had been upstairs and his father went to the first floor to investigate the sound of breaking glass.

“I heard gunshots downstairs, and my dad is not responding,” the son told a 911 operator.

Investigators from the Franklin County sheriff’s office determined that six bullets were fired into the elder Lake’s body in a first-floor bedroom in the posh, red-brick colonial just north of New Albany. Kevin Lake died the day after the shooting.