Victim shot in buttocks before crash into Dayton house

UPDATE @ 10:03 a.m.

The man who was shot claimed he was a passenger in the vehicle that was shot at from a maroon GMC Denali in the area of West Second Street and North Gettysburg Avenue, according to the Dayton police report.

An officer responding to the scene was waved down by the victim as he was walking along North Decker. His clothes were bloody as he had been shot in the buttocks. He was taken to Miami Valley Hospital where he was treated for a through-and-through gunshot wound, according to the report.

The driver took off running after losing control of the Impala and driving up into the yard on North Decker Avenue.

The gunshot victim told police they were at North Gettysburg and West Second when the Denali pulled up beside them and opened fire.

The victim reported they turned onto West Second in an effort to get away and the driver lost control a short time later, according to the report.

The victim told police they were at a club earlier in the evening and he thinks their vehicle was targeted because he was with a friend who had an argument the previous weekend over a “weed phone,” according to the report.

The friend who may have been targeted reportedly got into a different vehicle than the Impala shortly after the group left the club, police noted in the report.

UPDATE @ 3:50 a.m.

A motorist who was shot early today crashed his car into a vacant house.

The shooting and subsequent crash was reported around 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of North Decker Avenue.

Dayton police said the victim was not cooperating with investigators. The man, whose injuries were described by police as not life-threatening, was taken to Miami Valley Hospital for treatment.

Police said shots were fired into the gunshot victim’s Chevrolet Impala by a shooter in another vehicle. The man crashed into the house after he was shot. It was not clear whether there were any passengers in his car at the time of the shooting. The house, which had an overgrown, weed-covered lawn, appeared to sustain only minor damage in the crash.

The victim’s car was towed to a police lot.

The shooting remains under investigation, and no arrests have been made.

According to initial reports, a maroon GMG Denali sport-utility vehicle was possibly involved in the Decker Avenue shooting.

UPDATE @ 3:08 a.m.

A police evidence crew arrived on scene of a reported shooting on North Decker Avenue.

The gunshot victim was found after crews responded to a car that crashed into a house.

We are on scene and will update this report as we learn new details.

FIRST REPORT

A gunshot victim was inside a car early today that crashed into a North Decker Avenue house.

Police and medics were called to a shooting around 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of North Decker Avenue. Crews initially were dispatched to a report of a car into a house.

It’s not clear where the man in the crash was hit by gunfire, nor what led the white Chevrolet Impala to strike the house.