New Carlisle man pleads not guilty in shooting

UPDATE @ 1:55 p.m. (March 25)

Accused shooter Alexander Dean Boyer was convicted as a juvenile on a charge of rape, with the victim being someone under the age of 13, said Lt. Christopher Clark with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

Boyer served time as a juvenile in that conviction, Clark said.

The New Carlisle man also had a previous domestic violence conviction.

Both of these cases were in Clark County and mean that Boyer should not have had a gun because of his felony past, Clark said.

Investigators are also looking into where Boyer got the gun, because he is only 20 years old and could not have legally purchased the gun himself.

The sheriff’s office will next sit down with prosecutors to discuss more charges in the case, investigators said.

UPDATE @ 11:03 a.m. (March 25)

Accused shooter Alexander Dean Boyer pleaded not guilty in Clark County court today. His bond was set at $50,000.

UPDATE @ 10:28 a.m. (March 25)

Clark County Sheriff Gene A. Kelly said the man shot Thursday in the chest is Brian C. Perry, 36, of Huber Heights. He was shot with a 9mm handgun, with one bullet entering his chest and leaving out his side.

Kelly said in a release that Perry had gone over to a home on Rawson Drive in New Carlisle, where Alexander Dean Boyer, later identified as the suspect, lives. Perry’s estranged wife was there as well.

Boyer reportedly followed Perry to his vehicle and a confrontation ensued. Boyer is accused of shooting Perry once.

Kelly said the handgun was recovered. Perry was treated and released from Miami Valley Hospital.

UPDATE @ 11:55 p.m. (March 24)

A man was shot in the street Thursday night during an argument stemming from a “domestic issue.”

Neighbors heard gunshots, then saw a man calling for help around 6:35 p.m. in the 200 block of Rawson Drive.

The suspect, Alexander Dean Boyer, 20, is in the Clark County Jail tonight. The Rawson Drive resident is being held without bond on suspicion of felonious assault and having weapons under disability and will be in court Friday morning, online jail records show.

The 36-year-old victim suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, where he was treated and released. His name was not released.

The suspect and victim knew each other, said Sgt. Ronnie Lemen of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. “There was actually a witness in the area that observed the male (victim) laying outside and said there was an altercation out here.”

At the time of the shooting, there were people inside the home, including children, Lemen said.

He described the residential area as full of hard-working families and said there aren’t many problems in the area, which makes a shooting stand out. “To have a call like this that came in pretty much alarmed everybody,” Lemen said.

The sheriff’s office said the shooting was the result of “an earlier altercation stemming from a domestic issue.”

Justin Bales was among several in the neighborhood to witness deputies arrest the suspect.

“I heard a couple bangs … and I seen two cruisers here in the corner and one of the officers was putting on a helmet, putting on some armor and then he grabbed an AR-15,” he said.

Deputies approached a house on Rawson Drive as neighbors watched them arrest the suspect and place him in back of a cruiser. Lemen would not confirm whether the suspect or victim lived in the house, and would not elaborate on how the men knew each other.

Bales, who said he did not know either man, said he, too, was alarmed by the incident, and said he moved from Dayton three years ago to get away from violent crimes.

“You don’t see that here,” he said. “I’m just shocked this happened here.”

FIRST REPORT

A man was shot in the chest tonight and the alleged shooter is in custody, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting was reported around 6:35 p.m. in the 200 block of Rawson Drive.

Deputies said a woman heard a gunshot come from the home and saw a man with a gun standing in the doorway. The shooting victim is described as a man in his 30s.