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Friday, October 2, 2009
Littlejohn home to be sold at sheriff’s sale
DAYTON — An 11,500 square-foot house, once owned by former Dayton School Board President Gail Littlejohn, will be sold at a Montgomery County Sheriff’s sale on Nov. 20.
Littlejohn and her husband, retired Dayton Municipal Judge Bill C. Littlejohn, lived in the house after it was built in 2000, one year before she was elected to the school board. She resigned in Oct. 2007 to move to Houston, where she works at a national school reform center.
Her husband moved to Houston after he retired on June 30. Neither Littlejohn could be reached for comment on Friday, Oct. 2.
The house, at 1253 Hook Estate Drive, is a two-story single family home with six bedrooms and 7.5 baths, two wood-burning fireplaces and a four-car garage. In 2008, the property taxes totaled nearly $32,000.
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, filed a foreclosure complaint on March 31, stating that Gail Littlejohn defaulted on a mortgage she took out in December 2006. The complaint states that Littlejohn owed $1.1 million in principal.
On June 15, an attorney for the Littlejohns notified common pleas Judge Michael T. Hall that a settlement had been reached. One day later, Hall ordered that, unless the plaintiff was paid in full within three days, the property would be foreclosed and sold.
Though the county auditor’s office once valued the property at $1.4 million, appraisers for the sheriff’s office have determined the current value is $657,000. It cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of that appraisal, according to the advertisement placed in the Dayton Daily News on Friday.
Gail Littlejohn retired after working as a corporate attorney for Reed Elsevier, the parent company of LexisNexis.
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Murder indictment filed for man accused of killing girlfriend’s brother
DAYTON — A Dayton man accused of gunning down his girlfriend’s brother was indicted Friday, Oct. 2, on murder and other felony counts.
The Montgomery County grand jury also charged DaJuan M. Bell with two counts of felonious assault and single counts of carrying a concealed weapon and being a felon in possession of a weapon.
Bell, 28, is accused of killing Kantron Gipson on July 11. Gipson was the brother of Chakisha Alstork, who is the mother of Bell’s child.
Gipson’s family said Gipson went to the 3000 block of Wexford Place, in Hilltop Homes, to confront Bell, who they said repeatedly hit Alstork. Bell and Kantron Gipson got into an argument about 1:30 p.m., and Kantron Gipson was shot while running from Bell, Dayton police said.
According to a background check, Bell has been arrested numerous times on domestic violence charges for beating two different women. In one instance in 2001, he was jailed 90 days for charges related to a domestic violence conviction.
Domestic violence charges filed against Bell in January of this year were dropped, along with those filed twice in 2002, according to jail records.
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