Neighborhood on edge after 2 bodies found on same street days apart

“Teenagers stole a Jeep and parked it down here in the alley,” a 911 caller told dispatchers.

That 911 call brought Dayton Police to the alley behind the 1200 block of W. Grand Avenue as the caller tried to describe what they believed was a stolen vehicle.

“I’m not going to go out there and mess with it because they done stole it, and when I hollered at them, they jumped over the fence and ran out there,” the caller said.

The caller told dispatchers that the SUV the teens ran away from had Indiana plates, but officers found Jones’s body when they got to the scene.

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Then, just three days later, firefighters called police to the 2000 block of W. Grand Avenue at 3 a.m. Sunday morning. Crews were putting out the flames and smoke from a vehicle fire when the scene became suspicious.

Police found 26-year-old Dominique Anderson’s body in a burned car.

Stoney Cobb told News Center 7 that she didn’t realize the car fire she heard the fire department respond to was much worse until Monday.

“I think they should inform anybody on this street that has kids because there’s not just one body that’s been found over in this area,” Cobb said.

Cobb told News Center 7 that the two strange deaths within three days, a few blocks from each other, are keeping the neighborhood on edge.

“It’s a terrible feeling not knowing, you know, if the kids are safe,” Cobb said.

Both deaths are now being investigated as homicides. As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, police do not have any information that these two deaths have anything to do with each other.

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