Man gets up to 3 years in prison for shooting at co-worker at Dayton grocery

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

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Credit: JIM NOELKER

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

A Dayton man was sentenced to up to three years in prison for shooting at a co-worker multiple times in November following an argument at a grocery store.

Brandon Christopher Byrd, 30, was sentenced Tuesday by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Richard Skelton to two to three years in prison and received jail time credit for 211 days according to sentencing documents filed Thursday. He pleaded guilty July 30 to one count of felonious assault.

Brandon Byrd

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Byrd was working at the H&L Market at 1627 N. Gettysburg Ave. when just after 5 p.m. Nov. 22, 2023, he got into an argument with a co-worker. Byrd challenged the other worker to a fight and went outside before returning with a handgun, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.

Byrd is accused of firing at his co-worker four or five times before fleeing.

Officers who responded to the grocery store found bullet damage in the area behind the meat counter.

A detective reviewed surveillance video and noted that three women and another man were near the mean counter during the gunfire and were at risk of injury, the affidavit stated.

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