Man held for questions in death of hotel clerk

Hotel clerk shot behind counter at front desk, dies at hospital.

The 24-year-old man, who last year finished serving four years on an aggravated robbery charge, was taken into custody Friday.

Fairborn police detectives held a 24-year-old man Friday afternoon for questioning about a fatal shooting Wednesday at the Hampton Inn in Fairborn, according to Fairborn Jail records and multiple law enforcement officers.

Michael D. McLendon, 24, was booked into the jail just before 3:30 p.m. Friday.

McLendon was convicted for aggravated robbery in 2013 in Montgomery County for a robbery that occurred Oct. 6, 2010. He was sentenced to four years, with 241 days served, and was released Aug. 24, 2017, according to court records.

McLendon was taken into custody Friday at the Eagle Ridge Apartments on Needmore Road. Around 2 p.m., officers gathered at the facility with guns drawn. McLendon exited a building on the apartment complex campus with his hands up.

Police have not publicly identified a suspect or suspects in the slaying of Andrew Day, a 29-yearold Hampton Inn employee who died at Soin Medical Center after he was shot behind the hotel’s front desk.

After the attack, police described the suspects involved as two young males wearing dark clothing who possibly fled in a white late 1990s Buick-style sedan.

The hotel is between Interstate 675 and Colonel Glenn Highway, near the campus of Wright State University.

A 911 caller told dispatchers about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday the clerk was found shot behind the counter. He also said that others in the lobby were applying pressure to the victim’s wound as emergency crews responded to the scene. The caller also told police he believed the sus-

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Day was a 2007 graduate of Tecumseh High School and married his wife in 2013, according to Greene County Probate Court records. He also was a part-time photographer who worked with families “to capture special moments,” according to his social media accounts.