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Sunday afternoon the Noble County Sheriff’s Office requested OSBI investigative assistance with a homicide at 621 N. Antelope, Marland. OSBI special agents spent the day collecting information and evidence. It appears a man and woman who lived inside the home at that address got into a verbal altercation, which became physical. The woman shot the man. Richard Lee Bryer, 40, died at the scene. The female was not arrested. OSBI special agents will put together a written report containing all the information and evidence from the case and present it to the district attorney. The district attorney will determine if the shooting was in self defense.