Police called the Carroll High School student, MacKenna Kronenberger, “an innocent bystander” who died after being shot in her Dayton home early Wednesday morning. The 14-year-old girl was an unintended target when two groups of people exchanged gunfire outside the house, officers said.
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“You never know what will happen, even if it’s meant for other people,” neighbor Cheyenne Morningstar said.
A call log kept by the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center lists an entry at 1:03 a.m. saying that a female was shot in the chest and not breathing. It says she was “shot through the house.” Another entry suggests the shot may have come through a front window of the house at 700 block of Morse Avenue.
Two people have been booked into the Montgomery County Jail in connection with MacKenna’s death, including one person who is a relative of the deceased teen, officers said.
That shooting came just a couple of hours after a woman called 911 Tuesday night to report that a man she knew was breaking into her house in the 200 block of East Fairview Avenue. The woman called back a short time later to say that she shot the man.
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Officers had sought the man, 53-year-old Darron Orr, in connection with “serious crimes” he committed on Monday, said Dayton Police Sgt. John Riegel.
The woman in the house was the victim in the previous alleged crime, officers said.
A third deadly incident happened just after 1 a.m. Tuesday in Vandalia when a state trooper shot and killed a Cincinnati-area man suspected of shooting to death a woman he lived with.
The man, Dana D. Dubose, 36, reportedly rammed into the rear of the trooper’s cruiser and approached the trooper, bloodied and holding a knife, according to patrol reports.
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The trooper had conducted an unrelated traffic stop for a vehicle that ran a red light on U.S. 40 near Ranch View Drive in Vandalia, said Lt. Robert Sellers of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
That’s when a Chevrolet Cruze, driven by Dubose, struck the trooper’s patrol car. Dubose left his car and had a knife in his hand, the trooper said.
“The man continued to disregard verbal commands and lunged at the trooper with the knife extended,” Sellers said. “The trooper discharged one round from the service weapon striking the man.”
Dubose is suspected of killing his estranged girlfriend, Princess Brown, 32, in her home in Springfield Twp., Hamilton County, according to reports.
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