La’Peetra Dawson’s autopsy was completed Wednesday. Her death was ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound to the torso, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
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Dawson was shot and killed just before midnight Tuesday, according to Dayton police. The police incident report contained no narrative and no record of an arrest.
“Upon arrival crews located a female victim suffering from a gunshot wound,” Dayton police Sgt. Jason Hall said in a news release. “The victim unfortunately succumbed to her injuries at the scene.”
Hall said a preliminary investigation revealed that “several rounds had been fired from outside the house striking the victim, who was inside.”
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Hall said anyone with information could call Dayton police at (937) 333-COPS or provide it anonymously through Crime-stoppers at (937) 222-STOP.
“I heard a whole lot of shots and people down here screaming and hollering,” a woman told a 911 dispatcher about 20 minutes after hearing gunshots. “I didn’t see a person with a gun. It’s like a whole bunch of people just running down the street screaming, like, ‘Oh no, why did you do that?’ and somebody got shot.”
Dawson was listed as the "beloved significant other" in a Dayton Daily News obituary of Darnell L. Wilson Sr., 35, who was shot but able to drive to outside his Germantown Street residence before dying on Thanksgiving Day 2009.
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Wilson's Nov. 26, 2009 death is listed as an unsolved homicide on the Ohio Attorney General's website.
A 2010 News Center 7 story on cold cases said police investigators determined Wilson was out with friends the night before Thanksgiving and was shot in the neck while he sat in the driver’s seat of his car. Police said he managed to drive the short distance to his home, but could not make it inside.
“Unfortunately he died at his own front door before he could make contact with the mother of his children and no one knew he was there so he bled to death,” Dayton police Sgt. Gary White said in 2010.
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“It was a jealousy thing over a girl,” Wilson’s mother, Thelma Reynolds, said in 2010 when police said witnesses likely were hiding. “That boy should have never died a senseless death, he should be living his life and enjoying his kids like he was.”
Wilson’s obituary listed five children. It is not immediately known if he shared all of those children with Dawson.
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