Jury convicts Tolliver on 22 counts stemming from summer standoff

​A Logan County jury today convicted Holly Tolliver Jr. on 22 felony charges stemming from his nearly 12-hour standoff with law enforcement in August of 2024.
 
The jury convicted Tolliver on 16 counts of felonious assault on a peace officer, felonies of the first degree, and accompanying seven-year firearm specifications. The jury also convicted him on four counts of improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation, felonies of the second degree, and accompanying three-year firearm specifications.
 
The jury found that Tolliver burglarized the home of a neighbor and stole some of the firearms that he used to fire on law enforcement from that home. Based on those findings, the jury found Tolliver guilty of burglary, a felony of the second degree, and grand theft when the property is a firearm, a felony of the third degree.
 
Tolliver testified in his own defense. He denied burglarizing the neighbor's home or stealing the firearms and claimed that he only shot into the ground, not at law enforcement officers that surrounded his home on Big Bear Path in the Indian Lake neighborhood known as Chippewa.
 
Tolliver's defense counsel, Addie King, of Urbana, Ohio, requested the court to instruct the jury on the not guilty by reason of insanity defense, but the Court found that Tolliver failed to meet his burden to produce evidence upon which the jury could find by the preponderance of the evidence that Tolliver suffered from a mental disease or defect at the time he committed the offenses that caused him to not know the wrongfulness of his actions.
 
During the trial, Logan County Prosecutor Eric Stewart presented numerous videos that showed Tolliver shooting at law enforcement from inside his home. Tolliver was the only person injured in the standoff and has recovered from his injuries to his arm and his nose. Police used an armored skid loader known as a "rook" to cave in a side of his home and apprehend him. Stewart argued to the jury that Tolliver's claims that he did not commit the offenses were not credible and that Tolliver was attempting to commit "suicide by cop" after enduring several personal setbacks.
 
Logan County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kevin P. Braig ordered that Tolliver will remain in the Logan County Jail as he has since the day of the incident and scheduled a sentencing hearing for May 19, 2025, at 3:30 PM.