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No charges in fatal shooting of 18-year-old during break-in

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By Doug Page, Staff Writer 4:53 PM Thursday, January 26, 2012

DAYTON — Prosectors have declined to file charges in the shooting death of an 18-year-old during an apparent break-in last weekend.

Rovena Turner of Dayton was shot Saturday afternoon after she threw an object at a man inside the house in the 1900 block of Burbank Drive.

Greg Flannagan, spokesman for the Montgomery County prosecutors, said the state’s Castle Doctrine, which says a person has a right to protect his or her home without facing prosecution in certain circumstances, protected the man who fired the shot.

Sgt. Dan Mauch, head of the homicide unit, said Turner also may have been involved in an earlier break-in a block away from the shooting scene.

Mauch declined to say what Turner threw at the man living in the house. “She was using it as a weapon when she threw it at him,” he said. Mauch said the man shot Turner once with a handgun.

The sergeant said Turner was shot once and declared dead at Miami Valley Hospital.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2290 or dpage@DaytonDailyNews.com..

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