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Two arrested in fatal home invasion

Waymond Smith

Demar Maxwell

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By Amelia Robinson, Staff Writer Updated 10:12 PM Thursday, December 3, 2009

DAYTON — Dayton police have arrested two men in connection with two late summer home invasion, including one that left a man well-known in his neighborhood dead.

Waymond B. Smith and Demar D. Maxwell, both of Dayton, were being held Thursday, Dec. 3, in the Montgomery County Jail in connection with the Aug. 16 slaying of David Green, 52, at his residence at 1529 Weaver St. Police found him shot in the head.

Murder charges were against Smith, 21, and Maxwell, 29, Lt. Patrick Welsh said Thursday, noting that the pair knew Green, a popular figure in his neighborhood. Smith and Maxwell also face aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, felonious assault, kidnapping and tampering with evidence charges.

“This was a very targeted crime,” Welsh said. “It was not a random, stranger crime.”

Witnesses told police two men got out of a “large white vehicle,” entered Green’s home and asked about a safe. Police initially said drugs were involved in the crime.

Smith and Maxwell have already been charged with aggravated robbery in connection to a similar home invasion at 1538 Almore St. on Aug. 15, a day before Green was killed.

Maxwell was arrested on a warrant in Greensboro, N.C. last week. Dayton narcotic detectives arrested Smith on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at his apartment in the 800 block of Wilmington Avenue.

Welsh said witnesses and an investigation by the police department’s homicide and robbery detective linked Smith and Maxwell to the crimes.

A 23-year-old man told police he and his 2-year-old son were at the Almore house, the residence of a friend, when two men showed up brandishing guns, police reports said.

As the victim held his child, the men repeatedly yelled, “Where is it?”

One gunman held a gun to the 23-year-old’s head, while the other searched the home for items, reports said.

The suspects took video game systems, a food-stamp card and a semiautomatic gun.

Both suspects have recent felony criminal records, according to the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts’ Office.

Maxwell was convicted of possession of heroin in May and sentenced to five years community control.

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