Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
The gunshot victim was identified Tuesday as 38-year-old Al Jaheem Brown by Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene.
Dayton police and medics were dispatched around 12:10 a.m. Monday to a report of a shooting in the 2700 block of Oxford Avenue.
A witness heard two men screaming and then a gunshot. A 911 caller said a man was lying in the street, according to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center records.
“Homicide detectives were requested to the scene to further the investigation,” Dayton police Lt. Steven Bauer said Monday. “This does not appear to be a random act of violence, but a targeted attack.”
Strickland was sitting inside his Chevrolet Malibu with a woman when Brown, the woman’s boyfriend, showed up and began speaking with the woman. Strickland then got out of the car and began arguing with Brown. The men began shoving each other when the woman got between them to try to separate them when Brown pushed his girlfriend out from between them, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.
“Strickland at this time pulls out a gun from his pocket, that (the woman) knew he had, and fired at Brown. Brown is shot three times in the back,” the document read.
Strickland then drove away in his car, which was found later in the day in a parking lot in the 1600 block of McArthur Avenue, according to the affidavit.
Strickland has been in the Montgomery County Jail since he turned himself in Wednesday evening. He is next due in court March 3.
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