The victim, 15, was shot in the neck and shoulder by a single round on Wolf Road, Oct. 29.
Dorsey is being held in the Montgomery County Juvenile Detention Center downtown.
UPDATE @ 2:45 p.m. (Oct. 30): Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said that in light of the shooting, which involved high school students and a group called "The Off Main Street Gang," the sheriff's office will start a juvenile arm of the Community Initiative to Reduce Gun Violence.
Trotwood police Capt. John Porter said that although no known threats have been identified, police and the sheriff’s office have been saturating the area of the shooting as a preventative and investigative measure in the ongoing investigation.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Trotwood Police Department Detective Section at 937-854-3988.
UPDATE @ 7:45 p.m. Oct. 29:
The victim, a 15-year-old Harrison Twp. boy, was struck in the neck and shoulder area by a single round from a gun that has not been recovered, Trotwood police Capt. John Porter said.
The victim was in Dayton Children’s Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit, said Porter, who did not know the boy’s condition.
“We believe this is a gang related activity,” the captain said. “We believe there is some type of gang activity, some type of rivalry going on that may have spurred this to happen.”
Gunfire involving at least two people erupted just after 3 p.m. from among two groups of young people congregating on Wolf Road, Porter said. There were at least four people in one group, as many as five or six in the other. Some had just been let out of school, he said, and police believe the others may have gotten off a bus in the area.
“We have reports of two individuals, one in each group, exchanging gunfire,” the captain said. The location of the shooting may have been merely circumstantial because gangs don’t operate according to boundaries, he said. Investigators found four shell casings in the area of the shooting.
Trotwood police are working with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Dayton police to investigate what other circumstances may have precipitated the shooting.
Such activity, Porter said, “can go very much outside the boundaries of Trotwood. This is a regional issue.”
Police had no suspects Wednesday night, but they were interviewing several individuals believed to have been at the scene and who may have been witnesses, Porter said. Those individuals include as many as four juveniles who were stopped by police at gunpoint on Pointview Avenue just after 4:30 p.m., Porter said.
UPDATE @ 4:13 p.m.:
The victim is a male student at Meadowdale High School who was alert and talking when he was taken to a hospital, Dayton Public Schools spokeswoman Jill Moberley said.
An alert has been issued for police to be on the lookout for a maroon Pontiac SUV that was headed east on Haney Road.
North Dayton School of Discovery, in the 3900 block of Turner Road, which enrolls K-through-8 students, was locked down for a time because of the shooting.
“We were in the middle of dismissal and learned of the shooting in the area and immediately went into preventative lockdown mode,” said Jennifer Hoff, school spokeswoman. “Children were getting onto the buses and we did a reverse evacuation” and brought them back into the building for at least 15 minutes until police gave officials an “all clear” signal.
UPDATE @ 3:52 p.m.:
A shooting was reported after 3 p.m. in the 4000 block of Wolf Road.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Dispatch has confirmed that one person was shot. A school in the area was immediately put on lockdown, though scanner traffic indicated that was lifted quickly.
Deputies are using a K-9 unit to search the area for a suspect or suspects.
The severity of the injuries to the victim is unknown.
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