Waste workers find man’s body in Dayton road

Homicide crews are investigating after waste collection workers Monday morning found a man fatally wounded in the road in Dayton.

Police responded around 8:20 a.m. to the area near the intersection of Stanford Place and Harold Drive after a Dayton Public Works employee called and said a waste collection crew said they found a body in the road.

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“There is [what] they think is a deceased man laying in the street,” the caller said. “He’s bloody.”

The caller said the workers weren’t sure what happened to the man, but that his clothes were bloody.

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Crews were still on the scene around 10:30 a.m. and were placing evidence markers in the street and near a house with boarded-up windows.

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