Gunshot victim ID’d; Man calls 911, says fiancée accidentally shot self in chest

A man who called 911 said his fiancée was cleaning when she picked up a gun off the couch and it accidentally went off, striking her in the chest.

“Stay with me baby, stay with me,” the man said. “Baby, stay awake,” he cried out to the victim while he was on the phone with a dispatcher.

The shooting is under investigation by the Dayton Police Department.

The woman’s fiancé was taken into custody on a preliminary charge of having weapons while under disability and is in the Montgomery County Jail. He has not formally been charged at this time.