Miami Twp. officers were dispatched at 1:08 p.m. Oct. 20 to a report of a shooting at a house in the 9900 block of Ainsworth Court.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Investigators said that a private contractor who bought the house from Skalski was let inside when he had come to the house to complete work in the basement. After about an hour Skalski asked how the work was going. As the contractor was climbing the steps from the basement, Skalski reportedly started shooting, hitting the contractor in the face, according to the affidavit filed in Miamisburg Municipal Court.
Then, when the contractor was walking up the steps from the basement, the affidavit said that Skalski started shooting, hitting the contractor in the face.
“The contractor received a cheek wound, but luckily (and amazingly) avoided any major injury,” said Sgt. Paul Neinhaus of the Miami Twp. Police Department.
Skalski fled in his vehicle and later was stopped by the Ohio State Highway Patrol in Clinton County. He was arrested and booked into the Clinton County Jail. He was transferred to the Montgomery County Jail, where he is held on a $275,000 cash-only bond.
The motive for the shooting is unclear, though the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office clarified that Skalski was not living in the home at the time of the shooting.
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