Dayton man arrested on preliminary murder charge

Robert Anthony Brooks

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Robert Anthony Brooks

A 32-year-old Dayton man is being held on a preliminary murder charge at the Montgomery County Jail.

Dayton police arrested Robert Anthony Brooks Tuesday afternoon at the Safety Building on West Third Street, according to jail booking records.

Formal charges have not been filed at this time.

We are working to learn to which case Brooks’ arrest is connected.

Two men in Dayton died during separate homicides this week.

On Sunday, 25-year-old Kato D. Knight was shot in the 3900 block of Necco Avenue. The shooting was reported around 3 a.m. after a woman told 911 dispatchers that a man, later identified as Knight, came to her door on Cornell Drive and was asking for help.

Knight was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead the same day.

The following day, a waste collection crew found a man dead with blood on his clothes in the road at Stanford Place and Harold Drive.

Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger identified the man as Todd Gomez, 46, of Dayton. His cause and manner of death have not been determined at this time.

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