UPDATE: Deputies suspect man shot, killed had been dumped near bike path

HARRISON TWP. — Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office investigators said they suspect someone was trying to dump the body of a man found shot near the Great Miami River Recreational Trail Thursday night.

Jarvis Collins, 36 was found dead at the scene, according to Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger.

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Police, Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies, and a medic unit were dispatched about 8:45 p.m. Thursday to an area of the bike trail, near the I-75 overpass just off Embury Park Road in Harrison Twp.

As Five Rivers MetroParks rangers arrived a white Chevrolet Equinox with a temporary license tag sped off, however deputies are no longer looking for that vehicle, said Maj. Matt Haines.

Homicide investigators are still working to determine whether the shooting happened on the bike path or somewhere else, however they suspect it happened somewhere else.

Collins was known to law enforcement, Haines said.

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