Hotel shooting suspect arrested in Dayton

A man wanted in connection to a December shooting outside a Miami Twp. hotel was taken into custody at a house in Dayton on Tuesday, according to investigators.

Jesse Lamar Shepherd, 28, was located and arrested at a house on Lakeside Drive in Dayton around 2:30 p.m., authorities said.

Shepherd was taken into custody without incident by investigators with the Miami Twp. police, Dayton police, and the U.S. Marshal Service SOFAST task force.

Shepherd was indicted in January and a warrant was issued for his arrest in the shooting at the DoubleTree Suites hotel on Dec. 18.

Shepherd’s charges include two counts of aggravated attempted murder, one count of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated robbery; two counts of felonious assault; and one count of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer.

Authorities filing charges against Shepherd in December requested the warrant be sealed until his capture, according to Miamisburg Municipal Court officials.

Shepherd called police minutes after his pickup crashed during a pursuit following the shooting, according to dispatch records.

“I’m trying to report a stolen truck,” Shepherd told dispatchers when he called about six minutes after the pursuit ended. “My neighbor just said somebody stole my truck.”

Shepherd is believed to be the man that exited first from the driver’s side of his pickup truck after it crashed at the intersection of Nicholas and Dryden roads with Moraine police in pursuit.

The other man, Dennis Lamar Taylor, was taken into custody immediately on a preliminary booking for felonious assault.

On Dec. 18, police responded to DoubleTree Suites By Hilton Hotel on Prestige Place after a person was shot in the head outside the hotel.

Police said the shooting victim had surgery at Kettering Medical Center, but survived.

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