Their preliminary hearing has been set for July 14.
UPDATE @ 5:40 p.m. (July 6)
The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office has approved formal charges today against Dylan Angel and Jason Tidwell in the shooting death of 14-year-old Mackenna Kronenberger.
Angel is charged with murder, discharge of a firearm into a habitation, discharge of a firearm over a roadway and tampering with evidence.
Tidwell is charged with murder, felonious assault, discharge of a firearm over a roadway, tampering with evidence and having weapons under disability.
UPDATE @ 5:25 p.m. (July 6)
Dayton police are seeking the public’s help to find to witnesses regarding the Wednesday shooting death of 14-year-old Mackenna Kronenberger.
Detectives want to speak to Victor Hernandez and Michael Jergens. They are urged to contact Detective Brad Daugherty of the Dayton Police Department at 937-478-0772.
Also, anyone who knows the whereabouts of Hernandez or Jergens is urged to call Daugherty or urge them to do so.
UPDATE @ 4:30 p.m. (July 6)
Dayton police are meeting with Montgomery County prosecutors about charges against two 18-year-olds in connection to 14-year-old Mackenna Kronenberger’s death.
The Carroll High School student was killed by a stray bullet that went inside her bedroom window.
Dylan Angel and Jason Tidwell were arrested hours after the fatal shooting Wednesday morning and were brought to the Montgomery County Jail. The two young men appear to be good friends and Tidwell is Mackenna's half-brother.
"It's too young, really too young," said neighbor Cheyenne Morningstar of her death.
Police say the shots happened after a dispute between two groups of people. Besides the shot through Mackenna's window, another bullet hit a home across the street.
"I think it's crazy. It only takes one," Morningstar said.
Detectives arrested Angel on suspicion of murder and Tidwell for tampering with evidence and a weapons charge.
Police would not say how many people had weapons or fired shots.
"That I can't get into right now but there's definitely a firearm involved," Dayton police Lt. Gregg Gaby said.
Angel's social media pages are filled with shots of him and Tidwell posing together. Tidwell has similar shots but also shots of him posing with money and a weapon tucked in his waistband.
Police records indicate they've contacted Tidwell a half-dozen times in the last couple years. One involved a domestic dispute with his mother's fiance and another, from last year, described him threatening Mackenna's former boyfriend and pulling a gun on that teen's mother.
Police say Angel and Tidwell both face trouble for the shot that struck and killed Mackenna.
"Either way, if you're involved, you're culpable in that shooting and that person dying," Gaby said
UPDATE @ 3:45 p.m. (July 5)
Dayton police Lt. Gregg Gaby said there were two groups fighting outside the Morse Avenue home early Wednesday morning, and then multiple shots were fired.
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He called the victim, 14-year-old Mackenna Kronenberger, “an innocent bystander.”
Gaby said the two groups fighting knew each other, adding that there was apparently a feud between them. The two 18-year-olds in custody, who had been good friends according to their social media accounts, were on opposite sides of the dispute, according to Gaby.
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Dylan Angel, 18, and Jason Douglas Tidwell, 18, have been charged in the incident.
Angel has been arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, while Tidwell faces charges of tampering with evidence and having weapons while under disability (probation).
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Credit: DaytonDailyNews
UPDATE @ 2:20 p.m.
Carroll High School has issued a statement following the shooting death of Mackenna Kronenberger who was entering her sophomore year at the school.
“Mackenna is remembered by her classmates and teachers as positive, hardworking, and loyal,” the school said in a Facebook post. “She will be missed by so many, and certainly, her loss will be felt by the entire Carroll family.”
UPDATE @ 1:30 p.m.
Two 18-year-old men were arrested, one charged with murder, at the scene of a fatal shooting of Mackenna Kronenberger in Dayton Wednesday morning, according to online jail records.
Dylan Angel, 18, and Jason Douglas Tidwell, 18, were arrested at the same home in the 700 block of Morse Avenue hours after the initial report of the shooting that killed Kronenberger.
Angel has been arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, according to online jail records.
Tidwell was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on charges of tampering with evidence and having weapons while on disability.
We’re working with police to determine if Tidwell is involved in the shooting investigation or was arrested for a separate incident.
According to Montgomery County Court records, Tidwell was also convicted on June 20 of having weapons under disability in connection with a March 12 arrest. Charges of using weapons while intoxicated and criminal trespass were dismissed and he was sentenced to five years probation.
UPDATE @ 11:45 a.m.
Mackenna Kronenberger, a 14-year-old killed in a morning shooting, had just finished her freshman year at Carroll High School, a Catholic school near the Riverside/Dayton/Beavercreek border.
Carroll Principal Matt Sableski called the shooting a “truly awful” event, saying Kronenberger was “a nice kid” who had attended grade school at Eastmont, a Dayton Public School that backs up to the Carroll campus.
The “incident history” 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 is 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.
FIRST REPORT
A 14-year-old girl was killed in a shooting on Morse Avenue early Wednesday morning, according to police and dispatch records.
Dayton police were dispatched to home in the 700 block of Morse Avenue around 1 a.m. on a reported shooting.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has identified the deceased as 14-year-old Mackenna Kronenberger, of Dayton. Her cause and manner of death were still under investigation.
We are working with investigators for additional details on the investigation. We’ll update this page as we learn more.
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