23-year-old man dies in shooting near Dayton apartment complex

DAYTON — New developments after a shooting at an apartment.

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The police worked two deadly shootings just hours apart last night.

Dawn Phillips rotates shifts at work.

When she comes home from a night shift like she did on Wednesday, she said there isn’t usually much going on.

“It’s pretty quiet … it’s never been no trouble that I know of,” Phillips said.

But Wednesday night was different.

“I got off work around 11:00 p.m., about the time i head(ed) upstairs, I just heard gunshots and I hit the floor, dialed 911,” she said. “It was coming from the outside. I only think I hear like ... pellets like hitting the building. So I just had to hit the floor.”

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Dawn’s next-door neighbor said the gunfire jolted her from her sleep.

“We were just asleep and I heard ‘pow, pow, pow,’ and i was startled awake,” Carlisa Steele said.

“I definitely knew it was gunfire. It was too close, too close. And I just knew something bad had happened,” Phillips said.

Both women said they eventually looked outside to see how bad it was.

“We seen the crime tape, we seen a police out there taking pictures of the car,” Steele said.

“By the time I come out the door, it was just chaos. Everybody, a lot of police cars,” Phillips said.

Dayton police said they found a 23-year-old man shot.

Medics took him to the hospital, but he died from his injuries.

“My wife knows him. She had a cousin that passed away a few years ago, and that was his friend,” Steele said.

“He is my best friend’s daughter’s brother. So he is connected to someone that I really know personally, so it’s kind of sad,” Phillips said.

Dayton police told us today that detectives from its homicide unit are investigating this shooting.

Police have not said anything about a suspect or a motive.

We will continue to follow this story.

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