“The deputy persistently fought to maintain control, but unfortunately, the inmate was able to seize the deputy’s firearm and flee the premises, prompting an immediate response from law enforcement,” a press release from the sheriff’s office said on Friday.
The deputy was treated and released for injuries that were not life-threatening.
Only one round was shot in the hospital, Assistant Chief Eric Henderson of the Dayton Police Department said. The inmate fled and ran inside a nearby house on the 100 block of Squirrel Road where he shot himself.
Dayton police officers forced entry into the house after hearing a gunshot and found the man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Medics attempted to treat him, however, he later died at the hospital from his injuries.
A witness said the escaped inmate pointed a gun at a resident after fleeing the hospital and before entering the house.
The deputy’s name has not been released, but the inmate was identified Monday as 25-year-old Dejuan Johnson by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office. Johnson, of Dayton was facing felony charges of trespass in a habitation and obstructing official business and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest filed Jan. 23 for a Jan. 22 incident, Dayton Municipal Court records show. The case was dismissed Monday.
During the summer of 2022, an inmate from the Montgomery County Jail was admitted to a private emergency room at Miami Valley Hospital that morning with a private guard from Merchants Security, which contracted with the sheriff’s office, tasked to watch him.
He was detoxing and getting treatment when he attacked the guard, and a struggle ensued.
The inmate, Brian Booth, 30, of Miamisburg then took a pistol from the security guard, 78-year-old Darrell Holderman of Carlisle, and shot Holderman in the neck. Holderman died from his injures.
Booth ran through the hospital’s hallway and pointed a gun at people before making his way to the parking lot behind the ER where he fatally shot himself.
Police said Holderman suffered “multiple skull fractures and lacerations to his hands from fighting back” against Booth.
A Miami Valley Hospital nurse said the inmate was handcuffed minutes before the shooting and police officers found a handcuff on the bedrail and leg shackles on the floor with a key in them.
After the 2022 shooting, the sheriff’s office announced deputies would stay with inmates within hospitals.
No one was else injured in the incident.