DAYTON — People said they heard several gunshots during a deadly shooting in Dayton on Thursday.
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News Center 7’s Amber Jenkins is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting and will have all the details today on News Center 7 starting at 5:00.
Dayton officers responded to reports of a shooting at the 500 block of West Fairview Avenue around 9:30 p.m.
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When officers arrived, they found a man shot inside a car and later pronounced him dead at the scene.
Our news crew at the scene saw that officers had blocked off the area about a half block away from the scene.
It stretched over three blocks from Rugby Road to Rustic Road.
A 911 caller described hearing multiple gunshots.
“We heard three gunshots,” she told dispatchers. “We just happened to come outside, and a car went off the road and into the grass and just stopped in the middle of the field, and he’s in here shot, and he’s barely breathing.”
She told dispatchers that she heard as many as 10 gunshots.
Dayton Police have asked anyone with additional information to call Crime Stoppers at (937) 222-7867 or police at (937) 333-2677.
We will continue to follow this story.
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