Police and firefighters were called to the area of West Riverview and Dow Street at about 6 a.m. and found the van on its side.
Moore was taken to Miami Valley Hospital with minor injuries and police discovered the handgun in the vehicle while preparing to tow it.
Police said he has not been charged in connection to the homicide, but is a person of interest pending an interview and a test of the gun.
Dayton homicide Sgt. Richard Blommel said detectives had Moore’s name flagged on their list of people wanted for questioning before the crash.
“We have numerous people putting him there and as a shooter,” Blommel said.
Moore is not allowed to be in possession of a weapon because of a prior felonious assault conviction in 2010 for which he was sentenced to three years in prison.
This is the third person that police have questioned in the disturbance at the DeSoto Bass housing complex in which multiple people fired weapons. Da’Lyne Foster was fatally shot during that incident and her son Christopher had to be delivered by emergency C-section.
One man initially admitted to firing a weapon in the air, but ballistics testing proved the bullet that killed Foster did not come from his gun.
Police arrested a second man, Marty Powers, on a drug charge and tested his gun, which was also not a match, Blommel said. Powers has since been released from custody.
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