Dayton police launch death investigation

UPDATE @ 4:43 p.m.: According to a Dayton police incident report filed today, police were dispatched to a residence in the 4600 block of Queens Avenue about 815 p.m. Saturday night on a report of a dead person.

The officers who filed the report said a Dayton fire engine was already on scene when they arrived, according to the report. The firefighter/paramedics were there with Monique Beans, identified as the mother of the dead man, Devon Ivery, 26.

His mother found him in the kitchen, face up on the floor, according to the report that indicated that Ivery’s father was the last person known to have seen Ivery. Beans said the father took Ivery to a club about 10 p.m. on Friday.

According to the incident report, Beans said when she left for work Saturday morning, her son had not returned home. She told firefighters and police she and her son traded texts about 2 p.m. Saturday. Beans said when she returned from work, she found the front door slightly cracked and she could smell cigarette smoke. She found her son’s body in the kitchen.

A Montgomery County Coroner’s investigator was called and the body was removed for autopsy, which was performed Monday, according to a coroner’s office representative.

What has not been made clear is what led homicide investigators to classify Ivery’s death as suspicious.

FIRST REPORT

Police have begun a suspicious death investigation and homicide investigators are searching a residence in the 4600 block of Queens Avenue.

A 26-year-old male was found at the address on Saturday, according to Dayton police incident report, and an autopsy performed today has listed the death as suspicious. A preliminary ruling on a probable cause of death is pending toxicology and other tests.

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