DAYTON — People said they are fed up with deadly violence in Dayton.
As reported on News Center 7 at 11, around 2:51 a.m., officers responded to reports of shots fired at the International School at Residence Park, in the area of Oakridge Drive and Geneva Road.
While searching the area, officers found a male who appeared to have been shot.
Britton Harrison, 33, was pronounced dead on scene.
Joe Marks Sr. told 911 that he heard 75-100 gunshots.
“The shouting sounded like a warzone, and it was large caliber weapons. I could tell by the sound and but at that point, I dived for the floor,” Marks said.
Marks has lived in West Dayton for more than 20 years, he worries too many kids are lost.
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“The community is crying out for support,” Monnie Bush, founder and CEO of Victory Project said.
Bush started the Victory Project in 2009.
In the last year, it opened a second location in West Dayton.
“We know these young men are very, very capable of tremendous things. But there’s a lot of things that’s gotten in their way to poverty and crime and trauma,” Bush said.
The program teaches them unique skills like how to treat a partner on a date, and how to do laundry and gives them landscaping jobs.
Things 17-year-old Jediah Dewberry said keep him coming back.
“There’s just a lot of dangerous things going on around the city that kids just, they’re just used to it. So they don’t really see a way out of that and I think this is a really good alternative for those kids that don’t see a way out of it,” Dewberry said.
Bush has seen the program change lives and he hopes to open more programs in areas that need it.
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