RTA driver discovers deceased woman

Dayton homicide detectives are working to solve a woman’s death after an RTA bus driver spotted her body Thursday morning in the street.

Crews were dispatched around 8:45 a.m. to the area of Lakeside Drive and Lakeview Avenue.

“Crews located a deceased female,” Sgt. Creigee S. Coleman said. “The female had received a gunshot wound to the upper torso. ...”

“We are not sure if the person was placed there or if the situation happened there,” he said.

The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has not yet released the woman’s identity. “At this point we need the public to come forward and let us know and tell us what they saw, if they saw anything late at night or even in the day,” Coleman said.

Anyone with information is urged to call Dayton police at 937-333-COPS or Miami Valley Crime Stoppers at 937222-STOP to remain anonymous.

Hall said.

“It was actually over the purchase of a bottle of alcohol,” Hall said. “This altercation escalated into a physical fight and unfortunately gunfire, resulting in the death of the victim.”

The victim was taken to the hospital, where he later died from injuries.

Witnesses at the scene were able to identify Thompson as the shooter, according to the prosecutor’s office.

He was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Dayton police a few weeks after the shooting.

Thompson is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1 million bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 17.