DAYTON — Police are investigating after three shootings were reported on the same Dayton street in less than a week.
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The shootings have been reported on Bragg Place at the DeSoto Bass apartment complex. The most recent of the shootings happened Thursday morning.
“You have kids out here, and bullets don’t have no eyes. You know what I’m saying?” one DeSoto Bass resident said on Thursday.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, people living on Bragg Place are shaken up and not willing to go on camera. They’ve seen three shootings in three buildings that are right next to each other in the last six days.
“I just stay to myself, but last night I could have swore somebody was dead, all the police that was out here,” the resident said.
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Dayton Police pulled into the apartment complex around 3 a.m. on Thursday. They discovered a 32-year-old woman who’d been shot twice.
Officers said she is fortunate enough to be expected to survive, but this is just the latest gunfire there.
On Monday, police discovered a 38-year-old man shot in the leg. They said he was exchanging gunfire with someone else when he was hit.
Last Saturday, May 31, a 28-year-old woman was shot in the stomach on Bragg Place during a domestic dispute. Police said a 45-year-old man, and father of her 4-year-old daughter, shot her.
“We do extra patrols, we do violence reduction initiatives, as well as with extra staffing that are in the area,” Dayton Police Major Brian Johns said at a press conference earlier this week.
Greater Dayton Premiere Management is in the middle of working to transform DeSoto Bass. Millions of dollars in the next decade will take down old buildings and new apartments will be built.
People who live in the DeSoto Bass told News Center 7 that they aren’t quite ready to pin their hopes on that making things safer.
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