Inmate accused of throwing blood

A Miami County judge has ordered competency and sanity evaluations for a Troy man who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to felony harassment with a bodily substance in an alleged August incident at the county jail.

A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was made Jan. 10 in county Common Pleas Court for Tyler Sharp, 25. He is accused of throwing a cup of his blood in the face of a jail corrections officer delivering a meal Aug. 14.

Sharp’s lawyer, Jay Lopez of Troy, filed a request asking the court to also determine if Sharp is competent to stand trial.

Judge Christopher Gee ordered Sharp’s referral to the Forensic Psychiatry Center for West Ohio in Dayton for an examination of his competence to stand trial and his mental condition at the time of the offense charge.

Sharp is being held in the county jail in lieu of $2,500 bail. Driscoll, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.

Dayton police responded shortly before 1:30 p.m. Jan. 12 to a report of a body found in a vacant lot behind the 30 block of Ernst Avenue.

Police confirmed Driscoll’s death was under investigation as a homicide.

However, the coroner’s office has not released her cause and manner of death.

According to a Dayton police report, Driscoll’s body was found in brush in the rear of the vacant lot, covered by a “tightly wrapped” blue sheet secured with black tape.

It is not clear when Driscoll’s body was placed in the lot, but one of the neighbors told police the body was not there Jan. 8 when she last was in the lot.