DAYTON — A 26-year-old mother was shot and killed while in the backseat of a car with her 4-year-old daughter.
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Dayton Police confirmed that the woman, identified as 26-year-old Jermea Lyle, was shot on Saturday morning around 7 a.m. while riding in the backseat of her boyfriend’s car with their 4-year-old daughter.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, Jason Bates, Sr. said his son called him Saturday morning, screaming that he was driving his girlfriend, Lyle, to the hospital.
Lyle was brought to Miami Valley Hospital by her boyfriend, where she later died.
“My granddaughter lost her mom,” Bates said. “My son is broken.”
Police confirmed that Lyle’s boyfriend was driving a friend home from the area of the airport. He drove down Interstate 75 and took the ramp to westbound US 35. There was no sign of danger.
“I can tell you from I-75, the view that we have from I-75 coming from the airport — coming from the north, there’s no indication of any road rage,” Major Brian Johns, Dayton Police, said. “There’s no vehicle following our victim’s vehicle.”
Lyle’s boyfriend told police he saw two cars exit onto Germantown Street right after he heard the shot. Police shut down the ramp and did find a single bullet casing. The theory the police have now is that those two cars may have come off I-75 north onto US 35 West and had possibly been involved in a road rage incident where someone fired a weapon.
Bates said he wants to know who did this to his granddaughter’s mother.
“Insane is my only words,” Bates said. “I just don’t understand.”
Police believe the two cars that immediately exited after the gunshot were a blue Impala and a white car.
Anyone with any information related to this incident is asked to call Dayton Police at (937) 333-1232 or Miami Valley Crime Stoppers at (937) 222-STOP (7867) or www.miamivalleycrimestoppers.com.
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