DAYTON — Dayton Police launched a homicide investigation after sanitation workers found a body.
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Officers responded to the 300 block of Smith Street around 8:45 a.m. after someone called 911 and said a waste collection crew found a body in an alley.
“One of our waste collection crews found a dead body,” a woman with the City of Dayton Waste Collection told a dispatcher in a 911 call.
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In the call, she tells a dispatcher that the man has a gray shirt with a thermal shirt underneath, jeans, and one shoe on.
Police came to the scene and found the body, which the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the body as 59-year-old Talmadge E. Heard.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, one neighbor, who wished to stay anonymous, told our crew that he saw the police in the alley.
“Typically, I walk my dog back here, but I just don’t know, I don’t know how I missed that dead body,” the neighbor said.
Police have not said whether they think someone killed Heard in the alley or if someone possibly dumped his body there.
Dayton Police Lieutenant Eric Sheldon confirmed on Wednesday that the case is under investigation by the department’s Homicide Unit.
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