Dayton Lt. Eric Sheldon said that officers were dispatched to the area of West Fairview and Emerson avenues Thursday around 9:30 p.m. for a report of a person who had been shot.
Officer found the man inside of a vehicle at the scene.
Detectives from the police department’s homicide unit are investigation, Sheldon said.
Montgomery County Regional Dispatch received multiple 911 calls reporting the shooting.
“We heard three gunshots and we just happened to come outside,” one caller said. “A car went off the road and into the grass and it stopped in the middle of a field.”
She said a man was slumped over in the car and was barely breathing.
Another caller said there was a woman screaming “They shot him in front of me” who walked away from the vehicle, according to dispatch records.
We are working to learn more and will update this story with any new information.
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