Lisa Bailey said she didn’t ask many questions and ordered a pizza from Joe’s Pizzeria, just around the corner from her home.
“I just didn’t want him going to jail on an empty stomach,” she said.
Kenny Bailey called her from The Montgomery County jail hours later and described the “horrific” events from five days before.
Bailey, 22, said he and his cousin Tylor Blevins, 18, and Gregory A. Leet, 27, had been drinking at Hammerjacks in downtown Dayton Friday, Feb. 26, when they walked out of the bar and started talking to Nathan E. Gay and Harvey Sims.
Sims, 54, and Gay, 49, recently became friends who had little money and dabbled in drugs, according to family and police reports.
The two groups were strangers. Kenny Bailey said Thursday after his release from jail he had never seen Gay or Sims before.
But they all hopped in Leet’s car early Friday morning to party, Bailey said. They drove around for awhile and ended up in a rural section of Jefferson Twp. — less than two miles from Leet’s house at 3377 S. Union Road.
Bailey told his mother Leet ordered everyone out of the car, produced a gun and for some reason fired numerous shots at Gay and Sims, killing both men.
The rural setting provided no witnesses other than Leet, Bailey and Blevins. The nearest house was more than 200 yards from them.
It’s unclear to investigators who allegedly carried the bodies and laid them side by side near the creek.
Bailey said he and his cousin were “held against (their) will” by Leet, but did not specify when and where.
Bailey said they were told not to say anything by Leet or they would be killed. The men went their separate ways, kept quiet, but Lisa Bailey said the killings began “tearing them up inside.”
Days after the killings, Leet showed up at a home Kenny Bailey stayed at in Fairborn and tried to hide a gun in the basement, Lisa Bailey said.
When family members realized a gun was there, they told Leet to take it back.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said Thursday the murder weapon has not been recovered. He said the motive for fatal shootings appears to be robbery.
“I am so sorry for the families (of Sims and Gay),” Kenny Bailey said Thursday. “That’s all I can say. I am sorry for their loss. This will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
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