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UPDATE @ 9:30 p.m.: Diana Kane, the mother Chester Williams, spoke with News Center 7 because she wants to send the message to young people, asking that they stop committing senseless killings.
“No one should lose their life for asking someone to leave their home,” Kane told Videographer Charles Hamlin. Her son, she said, “asked someone to leave his home twice — and got shot for it.”
Kane said the argument and deadly confrontation involved the sale of the prescription drug Xanax.
She said she has been given to understand that the boy who shot “CJ” had come to the house with his girlfriend for one pill. Williams and the other male butted heads, then shots were fired. Her son and Steven Mallory Jr., 26, where dead minutes later.
Kane said “CJ” didn’t want the transaction occurring at his home and wanted them gone before he arrived.
“A head-butt didn’t deserve a bullet,” she said. “No mother should have to bury her children.”
Kane said her grandchild — CJ’s 1-year-old son — is all she has left of her son.
She said the family is working on arrangements for Williams.
UPDATE @ 1:58 p.m. (Feb. 8):
Trotwood police believe a planned drug transaction led to the death of two men in a shooting over the weekend.
Police said an altercation inside a residence in 0-100 block of Devonshire Avenue led to Steven Mallory, 26, shooting and killing Chester Williams, 25, of Trotwood.
As he was fleeing the residence, Mallory was shot and killed in his van by an unknown suspect, officers said.
Officers are meeting and talking with witnesses to determine who shot Mallory.
Mallory died from two to three gunshot wounds to the chest and Williams was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head.
Anyone with information concerning the case is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 222-STOP.
UPDATE @ 12:59 p.m. (Feb. 8):
Trotwood’s Interim City Manager said Trotwood residents should not be concerned for their own safety following two double homicides in the city within a week.
“These were not random acts of violence,” said Quincy Pope, interim city manager. “I want the community to know that they’re absolutely safe.”
Pope said the common issue in each of the double homicides was drugs and violence.
According to Pope, the city is actively working to educate residents in the community about the danger of drugs, and he asks for the public to work with investigators in these types of cases.
“We need people to step up too and be our extra eyes,” Pope said. “Cooperate with us, talk to us, let us know what’s going on and what you see.”
INITIAL REPORT (Feb. 7)
Officers were dispatched to the 1st block of Devonshire Avenue around 3 a.m. on Feb. 7 on a reported shooting.
Police said in a release that they found two men shot and killed on the scene when they arrived.
One victim, 25-year-old Chester R. Williams, of Dayton, was found dead inside the home on Devonshire Avenue while the other, 26-year-old Steven R. Mallory Jr. of West Carrollton, was found dead inside a vehicle parked outside the house.
Police said they have reports the two were arguing prior to the shooting and several witnesses are being interviewed in the investigation.
Officers did not specify if they are looking for any suspects.
Police said this shooting remains under investigation and blocked off a portion of Devonshire Avenue into the late morning hours.
This is the second double-fatal shooting in Trotwood in less than a week.
On Feb. 1, 16-year-old Antione Jones, a Kettering Fairmont High School student, and 20-year-old Fausto Sosa, of Trotwood, were found shot to death inside a vehicle parked in a driveway on Curundu Avenue.
Officers said that double-fatal shooting was not a random act. It also remains under investigation and no arrests have been made.
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