Man accused of sexually touching woman at Dayton gas station

Police said a 26-year-old man inappropriately touched a woman in her 40s early Friday morning outside a gas station.

This happened around 2:30 a.m. at Sunoco at the corner of Wayne Avenue and Wyoming Street in Dayton.

News Center 7's Monica Castro spoke with people who go to this gas station, with some saying the area can be dangerous after dark.

The suspect, Simon Ndagize of Dayton, is in the Montgomery County Jail, booked on suspicion of assault and sexual imposition. He is awaiting arraignment Monday in Dayton Municipal Court.

Cars are always coming and going at the Sunoco at 1500 Wayne Ave.

But Sondra Wolff refuses to pump there, not after she had a close call herself, just across the street.

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“I have been over there to Sunoco. It used to be a nice place but now so many drugs around the neighborhood. ... Someone a year ago tried to carjack me, right here in this spot. But I got away,” she said.

Now she said she’s even more hesitant, after Dayton police arrested Ndagize for assault and sexual imposition outside the store.

The Dayton Police Report does not go into detail about what police said happened.

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“It’s terrible when that kind of thing happens to a woman,” said James Johnson, the gas station manager.

He said its cameras were rolling and that he was in the process of reviewing the footage and then will hand it over to police to aid in their investigation.

Those who stop at this gas station say they will be more vigilant.

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Brittini Lynn VanWinkle said she always tries to be careful.

“I look everywhere before I go out. I look everywhere around me,” she said.

VanWinkle even went as far as saying this: “Mace. Carry some Mace. Mace them. Mace the hell out of them. A Taser.”

The store manager said Sunoco usually locks its doors around 1 a.m. The manager declined to release a copy of its surveillance.