The gunshot victim was identified as 43-year-old Steve Dews by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
Dayton police were dispatched just before 1:25 a.m. Nov. 30 to a shots fired call at Kammer Avenue and Winters Street.
Responding officers found Dews inside a car that had crashed into a power pole at Kammer and North Woodward avenues, police said. Dews suffered multiple gunshot wounds was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Cellphone data and text messages on Dews’ phone led homicide detectives to Jackson, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Jackson and a woman, 24-year-old Brianna Rena Hastings, were both charged Dec. 6 in Dayton Municipal Court in connection to Dews’ death. Hastings waived a preliminary hearing and her case was bound over to county common pleas court awaiting a grand jury review.
Jackson and Hastings are each held on a $1 million cash bond in the Montgomery County Jail.
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