Dayton homicides Jan. 1-June 19, 2013
1. Bradlee Thompson, 30, was shot to death at about 3:30 a.m.Jan. 1 inside 613 Hulbert St. Police identified one of the residents as the shooter and later ruled the death a justifiable homicide committed in self-defense.
2. A woman walking her dog in Triangle Park on Jan. 13 discovered the body of Eligio Cesar Hernandez, 44. Police said he had likely been stabbed somewhere else and his body moved to the park.
3. Matthew Anderson, 20, was shot when someone fired into a home at 4032 Prescott Ave. for the second time on Jan. 31. He died in his car several blocks away.
4. Daniel Holt, 34, was shot by two Dayton Police sergeants Feb. 10 at Island Metropark after he pointed an SKS rifle at them and ignored commands to lower the weapon, police said.Those officers recently returned to duty, but the investigation into the shooting continues.
5. Oscar Beason, 95, was shot multiple times on or about Feb. 17. He was found at the bottom of the basement stairs at 1544 Hochwalt Ave. on Feb. 20.
6. Jillian Miles, 27, was found shot to death inside her home at 160 W. Parkwood Ave. on Feb. 19.
7. Jason Rutledge, 29, died at Good Samaritan Hospital on Feb. 20. Police later determined that he was shot at 2060 Ravenwood Ave. when an argument erupted over a game of dice.Tarrell Postell, 25, has been indicted on charges of murder, having weapons as a felon and felonious assault.
8. Willie Boddie Jr., 28, was killed Feb. 22 when a gunman opened fire on a car in the parking lot of H&H Service Center, 2647 Riverview Ave.
9. Charles Black Jr., 26, was shot in a car outside of 1610 Bancroft St. on Feb. 23.
10. Briona Rodgers, 13, and her cousin Alonta Culpepper were shot at Rodgers’ home, 2512 Home Ave. on Feb. 24. Rodgers died and Culpepper was critically injured. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against Dameon Wesley, a convicted murderer who was indicted in the shooting. Wesley was found dead in his jail cell on May 2. The Montgomery County Coroner conducted an autopsy and ruled there was foul play in his death.
11. Michael E. Neibert, 41, was shot and killed around 2 a.m. March 14 during an argument with neighbors at 3723 E. Third St.
12. Marcus Holland, 28, shot and killed on April 10, while walking on South Gettysburg Avenue. Family members said Holland was with several friends and on his way to a meeting with his parole officer the nearby government offices when a light-colored SUV pulled up and someone started shooting.
13. Edward Powers, 28, was shot to death May 6 at Whitney Young Estates as a group of men were playing craps.
14. Rodney Frost, 29, was shot to death just outside of his apartment on Valerie Arms Drive on June 19 possibly by an unknown individual who fled the scene on foot and who possibly lay in wait for the victim for hours.
15. Da’Lyne Foster, 27, who was nine months pregnant was killed during gunfire that erupted after multiple disturbances in the area of Danner Avenue and Stewart Street on Wednesday night.
Video: Watch a video shot during the disturbance on Stewart Street at mydaytondailynews.com
A baby boy, who was delivered after his mother was shot to death by a stray bullet, was in critical condition Thursday — the day his mother’s doctors planned to induce labor.
The boy had not been named and his grandmother has been at his side since his birth, Dayton homicide Sgt. Richard Blommel said. The boy is the son of Da’Lyne Foster, 27, who was a bystander during an escalating series of physical confrontations around the DeSoto Bass housing project near Stewart Street on Wednesday.
“We’re thankful for that small miracle. It could have been worse,” Blommel said about the baby’s birth.
Foster, a mother of three other children, is Dayton’s 15th homicide of 2013. In 2011, 38 people were murdered and last year 28 people died in homicides.
Just hours before Foster was shot, she posted this phrase on her Facebook account: “God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand his wisdom…”
Blommel described Foster as both a “friend of one of the combatants” and an “innocent bystander” struck in the chest when someone began firing at a car that was leaving the scene.
There is a person of interest in the case, a 45-year-old man, and police have the gun he was carrying at the time Foster was shot, Blommel said. Ballistics experts will compare the gun to a bullet recovered during Foster’s autopsy, he said.
The original disturbance started between two women who lived in DeSoto Bass. One had just moved in with her boyfriend and the other was his ex-girlfriend, Blommel said.
As the conflict escalated, participants began calling in friends and relatives and an unruly crowd formed.
“It was a very volatile situation,” Blommel said.
A police report examined by the Dayton Daily News showed that officers were called to 24 Bragg Place about 7:18 p.m. on the report that “people were pushing one another and getting ready to fight.” As officers drove to the scene, they were told that some people had guns, the report said.
When police arrived, no one was physically fighting, but some people were yelling at each other. After the officers calmed people down, they were approached by residents from 24 Bragg and 40 Bragg, the report said.
Shaquala Martin, who lives at 24 Bragg, said she needed a police report, because Britney Boyd, a resident at 40 Bragg, had allegedly broken her window. Police saw shattered glass around the storm door at Martin’s home. Martin told police that she had been having problems about Martin’s boyfriend, Davionte Jones, the report said.
Martin said she was outside her apartment with her son when Boyd and her family members started calling her names. She initially ignored them, but later agreed to fight Boyd. During that fight, one of Boyd’s friends joined in, so Martin fled back to her apartment and shut the door, she told police.
Officer Jacob Rillo reported that he ordered both Martin and Boyd to leave the area for the night to prevent further fights. Neither woman expressed any interest in prosecuting the other for the fight, and Martin was “just upset about her window being broken,” the report said.
Police monitored the situation, but left the area to take other calls, Blommel said.
Just before 9 p.m., several people called 911 to report Foster’s shooting. One caller said Foster was hit “right near the heart. And she’s pregnant.” Another reported that “they were shooting in the air.”
Foster, who was past term and scheduled to be induced today, was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m. Wednesday. The baby was delivered via C-section sometime overnight at Miami Valley Hospital’s Emergency and Trauma Center by an emergency and trauma team, according to hospital officials
Disturbance escalated
As the second round of disturbances built up, one man fired a gun several times in the air, causing a large crowd of people to run north out of the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority complex and across Stewart Street, with one group of people chasing another, Blommel said.
The man who fired into the air is not the person of interest in Foster’s death, Blommel said.
Some of the people who were fleeing got into a car, but were surrounded by the crowd. They would not move to let them leave. Someone in the car pulled out a gun and started firing into the air to disperse the crowd and the car began to move. Then someone started firing at the car, and Foster, who was standing nearby, was struck, Blommel said.
The person of interest is the father of one of the “original combatants,” and was carrying a small-caliber handgun, Blommel said. Ballistics testing is necessary as there were several people carrying guns at the scene, he said.
The person of interest was not arrested or booked into the county jail. He did give statements to police, but Blommel declined to comment on what he said.
Family members at the hospital declined to talk about the shooting.
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