DAYTON — An 18-year-old man was found dead in a car after a reported shooting in Dayton early Monday morning.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 6, police were dispatched to Gerlaugh Ave and Bierce Ave on reports of a suspicious vehicle around 1:42 a.m.
911 callers reported a vehicle parked in a strange way, with doors left open. News Center 7 tracked down video that shows how that unfolded.
“There’s like a car in the roadway, no tags, and it looks like the windows have been broken out,” a 911 caller told dispatchers.
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A neighbor living near the intersection where the vehicle stopped shared video with News Center 7.
It shows the car driving down the street, begins to turn right, then stops near a stop sign.
Several people bail out of the van, and it takes off.
“They were sitting kind of right in this area, and he was sitting just like this, and all the doors were open and one of the windows was shot out,” Becci Kendrick said.
A number of officers responded to the scene, blocking the road as detectives began their investigation.
Video footage showed people returning to the vehicle to retrieve items before leaving again.
None of them attempt to help the victim, identified as 18-year-old Santana Buchanon.
“I wasn’t expecting that, I wasn’t expecting it to be a murder at all because I asked my neighbors and I was like ‘what’s going on?’ and they’re like ‘it was a murder, somebody got murdered out there.”
Dayton police have not announced any arrests connected to Buchnon’s death.
We will continue to follow this story.
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