14-year-old boy dies from gunshot in Trotwood

Trotwood police were dispatched around 7:30 p.m. to the 100 block of Crown Avenue on a report of a deceased person.

Responding officers found the teen, later identified as Taylor, with a life-threatening gunshot wound. He succumbed to his injuries at the scene, the Trotwood Police Department reported.

Taylor was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m., according to the coroner’s office.

Trotwood police on Friday said the teen’s death is an active investigation by the police and coroner’s office, and that no further information would be released at this time.

Trotwood-Madison Schools Superintendent Reva Cosby said Taylor was a former student, last enrolled in the district for the 2018-2019 academic year.