MONTGOMERY COUNTY — A series of eight violent crimes involving teens in Montgomery County have kept detectives busy the last month and now police are saying at least some of the violence is connected.
A deadly crash that left three teens dead after a robbery attempt at the Airway Shopping Center last week is one of them, police said.
“Absolutely, our shooting at Troy and Community, the traffic crash triple fatality on Airway and several other shootings and at least one homicide in Dayton look to involve one group of young juvenile males,” said Riverside Maj. Matt Sturgeon.
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Sturgeon said Riverside police are working with detectives and a crime analyst with the Dayton police department on the cases.
“A majority of this violent crime involves continued back-and-forth retaliation over a recent homicide,” said Dayton Police Assistant Chief Matt Carper. “Over the past few weeks multiple individuals divided roughly into two groups have been associated with multiple felonious assaults, shootings into habitations and one homicide.”
Police have not said specifically what crimes are linked, however at least eight crimes involving teenagers in the last month have been reported in Dayton, Riverside and Montgomery County.
TIMELINE OF RECENT CRIMES INVOLVING TEENS:
- APRIL 18: 16-year-old Kamareon O’Berry died after being shot on North Upland Avenue near Westwood Elementary School in Dayton. The shooting happened in the middle of the afternoon. O’Berry and another teen were found shot in a car
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- APRIL 24: Two teens were hurt, including one who was sent to intensive care, in a shooting at the intersection of Old Troy Pike and Community Drive. Police believe the shooting may have stemmed from an argument possibly at a Huber Heights skating rink.
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- MAY 8: 18-year-old Kameron Dewberry was shot multiple times and killed in the area of West Hudson Avenue and Rustic Road in Dayton. He died at the hospital. Dwayne Jones Jr., 18, of Dayton was indicted on murder and other charges and is in jail on $1 million bond.
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- MAY 12: A 17-year-old was critically hurt in a shooting on Kumler Avenue. The teen who was shot called 911 to report his injuries. Police said they are looking for 17-year-old Jaydun Dewberry in connection to the shooting.
- MAY 13: Police respond to the 100 block of Lexington Avenue following up on information related to the Kumler Avenue shooting. A gun is fired as officers exited their vehicles and two Dayton police homicide detectives returned fire in self defense, Carper said. Several people, including who police believe was Jaydun Dewberry, got away. Police did arrest Walter Dewberry, 20, on a probation violation.
- MAY 13: Three teens are killed in a crash in Riverside on Airway Road after police said they tried to carjack someone in the Airway Shopping Center parking lot. The teens were identified as Ja’Sean Davis, 15; Da’Real Wilson, 14; and Ronald White, 16, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office. A 15-year-old who was in the car was arrested and booked into juvenile detention.
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- MAY 14: A standoff on Lexington Avenue near the site of the officer-involved shooting occurs as police are looking for 17-year-old Jaydun Dewberry in connection to the Kumler Avenue shooting. Police were unable to find Jaydun Dewberry and he still has not been captured.
- MAY 15: J’Yon Kolby-Lee Manson-Coleman, 15, of Dayton, is killed in a double shooting in the area of the 3600 block of Michigan Avenue in Harrison Twp. He was found dead in a car.