{"id":25872,"date":"2019-08-05T20:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T01:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=25872"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T04:02:19","slug":"dayton-strong-a-city-in-mourning-comes-together-flooding-the-streets-the-day-after-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2019\/08\/05\/dayton-strong-a-city-in-mourning-comes-together-flooding-the-streets-the-day-after-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Strong: A City in Mourning Comes Together, Flooding the Streets the Day After Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Though it already goes without saying at this point, in the early hours of this past Sunday, nine people were killed, another 27 were injured. In under 60 seconds the gunman struck a total of 35 people on 5th Street in Dayton\u2019s Oregon District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQjnYa21YsE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>The nine victims of the shooting early Sunday morning. (Source: NBC4 WCMH-TV Columbus\/YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cWe grew up as cousins,\u201d said Derasha Merrett, who was up feeding her newborn at 3 a.m. Sunday morning when she received a phone call. \u201cWe grew up in the same church, on the same drill team. She works at my kids\u2019 daycare. We all grew up in this little town. We\u2019re all family. We\u2019re all hurting behind this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tThat phone call was from a friend, who delivered through sobs the news that 27-year-old Lois Oglesby, mother to two young children, who had just returned to work after maternity leave, had been shot and killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t&#8220;She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful person,&#8221; Merrett said. &#8220;I have cried so much, I can\u2019t cry anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMegan Betts was a 22-year-old Wright State University student, who had spent the past four months in Missoula, Montana, at the Missoula Smokejumper Visitor Center, where visitors learned about fighting fires in remote places in the Montana countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMegan was an environmental science major and planned to graduate in 2020. She was just 22 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMegan was the shooter\u2019s sister, and the two of them came to the Oregon District together, with another unnamed friend. It\u2019s unclear at this time what happened but it is believed that at some point her brother split from her before the shooting began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tNicholas Cumer was a Pennsylvania graduate who was in town for an internship. He was a graduate student in the Master of Cancer Care program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cNicholas was dedicated to caring for others. He was recognized at the 2019 Community Engagement Awards among students who had completed 100+ hours of service. In addition, he was a graduate assistant with the university marching band,\u201d said Saint Francis University President Fr. Malachi Van Tassell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMaple Tree Cancer Alliance, a non-profit that is \u201ccommitted to improving the quality of life for individuals battling cancer through exercise, nutrition, and faith,\u201d had just named Cumer to a full-time position to run one of its offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igbv0JrXUIQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption> (Source: NBC4 WCMH-TV Columbus\/YouTube) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\tLogan Turner was a 30-year-old machinist who lived in Springboro, Ohio. He was a 2008 Springboro graduate and former fellow Sinclair Community College student. He earned an engineering degree from the University of Toledo and attended Wright State University for a time, according to WSU spokesman, Seth Bauguess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tHe was \u201csmart and sweet,\u201d said his mother Danita Turner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cHe was very generous and loving and the world\u2019s best son,\u201d she said. \u201cEveryone loved Logan. He was a happy go lucky guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tThomas McNichols, the 25-year-old father of four, was known as \u201cTJ\u201d and was described as being a \u201cgentle giant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cHe was so tall and a lot of folks thought he was older than he really was,\u201d said Donna Johnson, his aunt whom he lived with in her Westwood neighborhood home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMcNichols and his aunt sat eating Twizzlers before he headed out that night to the Oregon District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cEverybody loved him. He was like a big kid,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWhen all of the movies come out \u2013 Batman, Black Panther \u2013 he would get all his nephews and take them to the movies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMcNichols had graduated from Dunbar High School. His children, two girls and two boys, range in age from two to eight, according to Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" data-attachment-id=\"25889\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2019\/08\/05\/dayton-strong-a-city-in-mourning-comes-together-flooding-the-streets-the-day-after-mass-shooting\/attachment\/dayton-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dayton-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A flower placed in the spot where a bullet went through the window of an Oregon District business. (Taken by Staff Photographer Elliana Miller-Young)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Elliana Miller-Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\tDerrick Fudge, 57, was described by his sister, Twyla Southall, as a \u201cgood man who loved his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tAccording to Southall, her brother was downtown with his son, Dion, and other family members when the shooting took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tSouthall, who lives in Columbus, was called early Sunday morning about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cHis son is very distraught,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cThey were all just down there enjoying themselves and had stepped out of, I think, one of the clubs and were in a line to get some food,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMonica Brickhouse, 39, was a Springfield, Ohio resident who was described as \u201clike another aunt,\u201d by a friend, Brittany Hart, who wrote about her on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tBrickhouse was a native of Springfield, though she had recently moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, according to her Facebook profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cTo lose a loved one to senseless violence is just unfair, especially since it could be preventable!!\u201d wrote Hart in her Facebook post. \u201cI am so sorry this has happened to you all!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1379\" data-attachment-id=\"25890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2019\/08\/05\/dayton-strong-a-city-in-mourning-comes-together-flooding-the-streets-the-day-after-mass-shooting\/attachment\/dayton-strong\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1379\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dayton-strong\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong-300x202.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong-1024x690.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong.jpg?fit=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dayton-strong-1024x690.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Elliana Miller-Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saheed Saleh was an Eritrea native, a country on the African continent bordering Sudan,&nbsp; the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahya Khamis, president of the Dayton Sudanese community spoke for him on his family\u2019s behalf. He said that he was a kind-hearted and hardworking person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are here as a family, no matter who we are, as the city of Dayton is a welcoming city, so we are trying to come over with it,&#8221; said Khamis in a report delivered by the Dayton Daily News yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beatrice \u201cNicole\u201d Warren-Curtis was a recent Dayton, Ohio resident, who had just moved here from Virginia. She was 36 years old and was friends with Brickhouse; the Facebook post regarding Brickhouse mentioned her as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had a young daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A vigil was held last night on Fifth Street, the same street the attack took place on. The crowd stretched down the street amidst speeches from members of the community and of politicians throughout the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowd left after singing \u201cStand By Me.\u201d Flowers were placed in bullet holes in bar windows, the crowd was full of protests and hugs. Candles rested in front of the doors to Ned Peppers and The Hole in the Wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mourners gathered as the purple glow of sunset drifted towards night, the glow of the Oregon District\u2019s lights shining down on mourners as the candles lit their faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures have surfaced of the event, but the entire street was filled to the brim with mourners, an entire community coming together for support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a community who has had a hard year trying to find something in each other, trying desperately to reconcile the events of the past 24 hours. It was hard to watch but also in other ways cathartic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Richard Foltz<br><\/strong>Managing Editor<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mb8kOEGKGeY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sunday night&#8217;s full vigil. 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