A woman called Yellow Springs police around 11 p.m. Jan. 10 for a welfare check on her husband after receiving cellphone notifications for the camera system at her house while she was out of town.
“She said a white male whom she identified as her stepson, Frederick Dane Muenchau-Peterson, walked up onto her porch and fired several shots from a gun into the window of the home,” an affidavit read.
The woman tried calling her husband but was not able to get ahold of him.
Muenchau-Peterson left the house on foot, but the woman could not see in which direction.
A Yellow Springs officer and Greene County Sheriff’s deputy responded and saw bullet holes through a window and a person inside lying on the floor.
Additional crews responded and no one else was found.
Medics from Miami Twp. in Greene County declared the person deceased and he was removed by the Greene County Coroner’s Office.
His identity has not yet been released.
Yellow Springs police contacted the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to assist.
Muenchau-Peterson was arrested by Fairborn police and interviewed by BCI.
He reportedly told investigators he fired a gun through a window at his father’s house and identified himself as the shooter in the surveillance video.
“He told agents that ‘This was one of the worst things he has done,’” an affidavit read.