A Dayton man remains in jail pending charges accusing him of firing a gun that left at least one house on Lorenz Avenue, a block away across West Second Street, riddled with slugs.
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Michael Whitlow said something wasn't right about the noise he heard outside his home Thursday evening.
Neither Whitlow nor his lady friend were injured from what he learned were several bursts of gunfire he estimated he heard about 90 minutes apart.
"It was a lot of shots that caught my attention," Whitlow, 66 and an ex-Marine, told WHIO-TV's James Buechele on Friday evening.
"I said something isn't right. Something's wrong. But I wasn't coming out of the house, either."
Whitlow said he has heard gunfire in the neighborhood in the past, but didn't think much of it.
Thursday night was different.
"These shots were rapid fire," he said. "When you hear that much rapid fire, you just don't run outside and try to look and see what's going on."
Whitlow said he never saw who was firing the weapon, but people in the neighborhood told him what had happened.
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Dayton Lt. Jason Hall said police were called to the neighborhood about 6:15 p.m. on a shots-fired complaint. He said the investigation led police to a house on Anna Street, which led to a search warrant and the arrest of 47-year-old Bruce Lorenzo Long a little more than four hours after the complaint was made.
Long remained in the Montgomery County Jail on Friday night pending formal charges of felonious assault, having weapons as a felon and firing into or at a habitation. All of the charges are felonies and there is a fourth charge -- a federal detainer -- that should keep him in jail.
Hall said police seized six handguns, two shotguns, a rifle, several high-capacity magazines and a bulk amount of ammunition from the house on Anna Street.
"Obviously, with any violent crime, discharging a firearm in the city, especially targeting a home, there is a high potential for someone to be injured in an incident like this," Hall said.
He called getting weapons off the street and out of the hands of irresponsible people a win-win for the community.
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