DAYTON — A man is dead after he was found shot in a vehicle in Dayton over the weekend.
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The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the man as 34-year-old Marcus Grooms.
On Saturday, April 4, just before 2:15 a.m. Dayton police officers were dispatched to the first block of Santa Clara Ave on a report of a person who had been shot.
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When officers arrived, they located Grooms in a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound.
Grooms was transported to an area hospital, where he later died from his injury.
The vehicle he was found in came to a rest against the southern wall of a building in the 1900 block of North Main Street.
The shooting remains under investigation by the Dayton Police Department.
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