DAYTON — One person is dead after a shooting in Dayton early Tuesday morning.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00, Dayton police were called to Davis Avenue between Findlay Street and Linden Avenue on reports of a shooting around 1:41 a.m.
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News Center 7 obtained a 911 call through a public records request.
“I heard the commotion, some loud noise,” the caller said.
“Do you see him breathing?” the dispatcher asked.
“No, he’s not,” the caller replied. “His shirt’s halfway on and halfway off.”
The caller, later identified as Toy Sawvell, told dispatchers the victim appeared to be a teenager in a car.
Sawvell told News Center 7 that he heard shouting near his home and walked into a parking lot to check it out.
“I discovered a kid, couldn’t be any older than 15, lying in the back seat of the car,” Sawvell said.
Dayton police Sgt. Richard Taylor said Tuesday afternoon that officers found a male with injuries on the scene.
Sawvell said he watched police officers and then paramedics work on the victim for 30 minutes before heading to the hospital.
The victim was transported to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries, according to Dayton police.
Sawvell told News Center 7 that he never heard any gunshots in his neighborhood.
“I’m assuming that it probably happened somewhere, and that’s just where they wound up at, that’s about as far as they made it,” he said.
Sawvell said he saw at least one other teenager come back to the parking lot and speak with police.
“She did go down there and she was supposed to take them to where it originally happened, from what I understand,” Sawvell said.
Sawvell said he has three young sons of his own, and trying to help the victim survive was scary.
“These kids are so young, they lose their lives at a very young age, and it’s just so sad, man, fighting over nothing,” Sawvell said.
The shooting is under investigation by the Dayton Police Department’s Homicide Unit. It is unclear if police have any suspects.
News Center 7 has reached out to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office for the victim’s identity.
We will continue to follow this story.
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