Bond set for Dayton teen robbery suspect shot by police at busy interchange

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County Juvenile Court Judge Anthony Capizzi set a $500,000 cash or surety bond June 25, when he transferred the case, according to court records. A court date has not been set in common pleas court, records show.

The 18-year-old was 17 on Feb. 5, when law enforcement officials said Ashford committed an afternoon armed robbery at a Shell on Byers Road and then sought to escape by attempting to carjack vehicles.

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The situation attracted the attention of multiple law enforcement agencies, including an off-duty Miami Twp. police officer who wounded Ashford in the arm after the teen aimed a gun at him, court records show.

Capizzi has said “there were potentially hundreds of people put at risk” at the busy interchange.

Officer James Swearingen – who was joined at scene by Miamisburg police, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and Jackson Twp. police - acted lawfully, a grand jury ruled.

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Ashford is charged with seven counts of aggravated robbery, one count of felonious assault on a police officer, discharge of a firearm on or over a public roadway, and impersonating a peace officer.

Among the charges involve a carjacking of a man Feb. 4 in Dayton, records show.

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