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Monday, January 30, 2012
Gunshot victim may be wandering in the area
Dayton police said there is a chance a man with a gunshot wound is somewhere in the area.
Police confirmed Monday they had notified area hospitals to be on the lookout for anyone with such a wound.
The Regional Dispatch Center received a call early Sunday morning from a woman saying her husband was fighting in their backyard with someone who had broken into their garage. She told the dispatcher that her husband was holding a man at gunpoint. She later told police she heard a gun shot while on the phone to 911.
When police arrive in the 700 block of Superior Avenue, they found a blood smear on the backyard fence and a large pool of blood near the garage.
The husband said he confronted the man as he was rolling tires out of the garage. The husband said he was able to kick the unidentified man in the face. The man then jumped over the fence and fled. The husband claimed he was not armed, but if he had been he would have shot the intruder. Upon hearing this, his wife told her husband to go ahead and tell the truth. The husband maintained he was not armed.
Police found a 9mm semiautomatic pistol inside the house with one round fired. The husband said he’d fired the weapon New Year’s Eve.
Police were able to find a bullet fragment in the pool of blood.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, there were no reports of a gunshot victim.
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