Burney, 25, a suspected drug dealer, was hit multiple times by gunfire in Harrison Twp. after allegedly ramming an undercover Trotwood officer with a car. As the Trotwood officer on foot went down, a uniformed Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy opened fire “in fear of the Trotwood officer’s life,” said Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer.
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As the Trotwood officer regained his footing, he too opened fire, Plummer said.
The names of the officers who shot Burney at about 9:15 a.m. in the parking lot of JJ’s Fish and Chicken, 1926 Needmore Rd., have not been revealed.
Plummer declined to name the deputy who is on paid administrative leave, but said Thursday he was experienced and a ”good, active officer.”
Calls Wednesday and Thursday to Trotwood Police Chief Erik Wilson were not returned.
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The Dayton Police Department has taken over the criminal investigation of the officer-involved shooting. A spokeswoman said no new information on the case would be released Thursday.
Burney — who court records show went to prison for six months in 2011 for gun and cocaine charges, and for nine months in 2015 on three counts of trafficking heroin — crashed a Dodge Challenger a short distance away on North Dixie Drive. He died later in a hospital. Neither officer was hurt, Plummer said.
Trotwood police arrested Burney on July 20 after he allegedly punched a woman, with whom he has a child, in the face, causing a bloody lip. He then allegedly dragged her by the hair across the parking lot of a Salem Avenue bar, according to the police report.
The police report also indicates Burney took the woman’s iPhone, and a purse containing her wallet, and sped away in an orange Dodge Challenger. The car was spotted by Officer Jordan Turner, who responded to the woman’s call.
Burney posted bond and was ordered to have no contact with the woman, court documents show.
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Last September Burney was arrested by Trotwood police and later charged with aggravated menacing for allegedly threatening to kill the same woman, according to police and court records. The menacing charge was later dismissed.
The fatal shooting happened during a planned week-long multi-jurisdictional undercover drug “blitz” that was suspended after the shooting, Plummer said.
“We’ve got more scheduled,” he said. “We’re not going to stop these operations.”
The sheriff’s department and Trotwood Police Department would each be conducting their own internal investigations, according to Dayton police.
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