Grand jury hands up reckless homicide charge in shooting at Davis-Linden building

DAYTON — The man arrested in a deadly shooting is now facing formal criminal charges.

Jacob Ashba, 30, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury Tuesday on counts of reckless homicide, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises, and obstructing official business, according to county Common Pleas Court records.

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Records show that a grand jury voted to not indict Ashba on two counts of murder.

Ashba was arrested in June in the deadly shooting at the Davis-Linden Building in Dayton, News Center 7 previously reported. Dayton police were called to the 400 block of Linden Avenue about 11:30 a.m. on June 17 on reports of a shooting.

“There were people in the street that were fighting and then during that fight, there were shots fired. When our officers arrived, there were still shots being fired at that point,” Dayton police Maj. Christopher Malson said.

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Officers discovered a deceased man, 45-year-old Randy Allen, near a car that had a bullet hole in the passenger side window.

Ashba, arrested in Centerville, was later released after charges were not filed initially.

He is an inmate at the Montgomery County Jail, according to a check of the jail’s online site Wednesday night, and is to be arraigned Aug. 29.

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