DAYTON — Two people were taken to an area hospital after a shooting and two car crash in Dayton.
As previously reported on News Center 7 at 11, Dayton police and medics were called to the first block of Oxford Avenue for a reported shooting around 7 p.m., Montgomery County Regional Dispatch confirmed.
Two people with gunshot wounds were taken to local hospitals, according to Dayton Police Sgt. Philip Watts.
“It was about seven o’clock that we heard gunshots, and they were probably on the next street, coming around the corner,” Marlieha Dorsey, who lives nearby, said. “They we just heard cars coming up and down the street, and we heard another car come, and it was a crash. It was a very big boom.”
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Dorsey says she went outside to see the incident at the end of the street.
“It was a pretty bad crash, and they hit another car on the street,” Dorsey said.
Dayton police say this started as a shooting, and then the cars crashed and two people were taken to the hospital.
Our News Center 7 crew on the scene saw homicide investigators arrive on the scene around 8 p.m.
“It’s scary, but I’ve lived in this neighborhood my whole entire life, it’s always something like this going on,” Dorsey said.
Police have not released any information on a suspect or the condition of the people injured in the shooting and crash.
News Center 7 will continue to follow this investigation.
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