Police issue criminal summons to man who left infants in running vehicle

City officers were alerted to the incident by a passerby.

“Schirmer stated he was not familiar with the area,” Dayton Police Office Randy Betsinger wrote in the incident report.

Schirmer told police he left the infants in the running vehicle while he was “putting money on a friend’s books” inside the jail.

“We asked Schirmer whyhe did not take the children inside with him, and he did not have an answer for that,” Betsinger wrote.

Police contacted the children's mother about the incident.

“(Their mother) did not seem worried about the situation due to Schirmer only being inside the jail for a brief moment,” Betsinger wrote.