‘Makes me angry;’ Mother of shooting victim says wrong decisions led to daughter’s death

DAYTON — A woman is angry and devastated after her 26-year-old daughter was shot and killed on US 35 over the weekend.

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Jermea Lyle was shot while riding in the backseat of a car with her 4-year-old daughter early Saturday morning. They were with the child’s father and another person who he was giving a ride home from the airport.

After being shot, she was taken to Miami Valley Hospital where she later died.

After receiving the worst call of her life, Jermea’s mother, Ronetta Lyle, rushed to the hospital after learning her daughter had been shot.

“It was a devastating moment to have to go to the hospital and have a police officer put you in a different room so you can wait to talk to a doctor,” she said.

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Ronetta said she never got to see her daughter before she died.

While they were co-parenting their little girl, Lyle said her daughter and the child’s father were not girlfriend and boyfriend. She wishes the child’s father would have taken Jermea and their daughter home before picking up a private rideshare near the airport.

The man who got in the front passenger seat had been part of an ongoing dispute with one of his coworkers, which led to their car being followed by the suspected shooter from the airport to the ramp from Interstate 75 to US 35. It was there when at least two shots were fired at the car, one of which hit Jermea, who police confirmed was not the intended target.

“Decisions bring about consequences,” Ronetta said.

As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, she said all the wrong decisions in this case left a little girl without a mother and her without her daughter.

“She was loving, she was caring,” she said. “She would do anything for anybody that asked. One thing for certain, she loved her daughter.”

An investigation led police to arrest the suspected shooter, a 23-year-old man, yesterday. While police have not identified him, jail records showed that Dayton police arrested Noah M. Corbitt, 23, Wednesday afternoon on preliminary charges of murder, felonious assault, and a third weapons charge.

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