Miamisburg police were dispatched around 4:30 a.m. June 5 to the corner of Sixth and Buckeye streets for a person shot when a gunshot victim flagged down a cruiser on Central Avenue. The officer saw two bullet holes just above the knee on the man’s right leg, about an inch or two apart, according to an affidavit filed in Miamisburg Municipal Court.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
The gunshot victim was taken to the Kettering Health main campus in Kettering.
The gunshot victim told police that he and his girlfriend got into an argument about him playing video games. He gathered his belongings and left on a purple bicycle. When he got to the corner of Sixth Street and Central Avenue he realized he forgot his keys and returned to retrieve them. While waiting for his girlfriend to bring the key out, he said a silver SUV pulled up next door and that a man later identified as Stewart — the father of his girlfriend’s child — approached him, according to court documents.
The gunshot victim said he began pushing his bicycle toward Sixth Street as Stewart followed. At the corner of Sixth and Pearl streets, he said Stewart grabbed the bike and that he told Stewart he could have it. Stewart then pulled a small silver handgun from his pocket and once they were near the coroner of Sixth and Buckeye streets Stewart fired the gun, the affidavit stated.
The round struck the man in the leg and he turned to run away. While running he heard “six to seven” more rounds. He called 911 and was headed toward the police department when he flagged down a cruiser he saw turning onto Central Avenue, according to court records.
Surveillance video in the area following the shooting shows a woman identified as the gunshot victim’s girlfriend walking with Stewart, according to court documents.
The girlfriend admitted to police that she called Stewart following her argument with her boyfriend but said she did not ask him to harm the victim. She told police she picked up the victim’s bicycle in the street and heard four possible gunshots but said she did not see the shooting or Stewart with a gun, court records state.
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