UPDATE March 19: The victim has been identified as a 17-year-old, according to a police report.
UPDATE @ 5:08 p.m. March 18: One person was shot in the neck in what police are investigating as a robbery gone bad during an apparent dice game.
The victim Dayton Sgt. Randy Beane described as a younger male had been taken to Miami Valley Hospital by another citizen before police and a medic unit arrived.
Beane said the injury is said to be non-life threatening, but that police had no information about the victim’s condition.
Beane said police and a medic unit were dispatched to the 4400 block of Germantown Pike, at the Whitney Young apartments, on a report of a shooting.
Police have no information about a suspect, Beane said, noting that the victim and a witness taken into custody after trying to run from the scene are being uncooperative.
FIRST REPORT March 18
Deputies in Jefferson Twp. and Dayton police are responding to the report of a shooting on Germantown Pike.
Officers were dispatched at approximately 3:15 p.m. for a shooting in the 4800 block of Germantown Pike.
We have a crew en route and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
