The woman said she and her father heard a knock at a side window about 5 a.m. They saw a man walking around on the porch. She said her father wanted to leave him outside.
"The first thing out of his mouth was 'I've been shot. Call the police,' " the woman told News Center 7's Sean Cudahy on Monday night. "Are you going to let me die out here?" she said he asked.
So, they brought him inside and waited for paramedics, who took the man back out to the porch and worked on him there.
"It's absolutely terrifying," said the woman, who asked that she not be identified by name. "He seemed like a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up getting hit."
He was not dangerous in any way, she said, noting she didn't see any blood until the medics took the man's bubble jacket off him.
"When the detectives came back (hours after the man had been taken to a hospital) and said he had killed somebody, that made it even scarier," the woman said. "I'm more shook up than anybody," she said. "If he really did kill somebody, he needs justice."
That man she and her father let into their house is believed to be in custody.
His name has not been released publicly because he has not been formally charged. Dayton police will have to present their evidence to the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office for the formal filing of charges in the death of Corleone Lewis.
A longtime friend of Lewis' said the community has been shaken.
That friend, Eric Yarbrough, said he has been given to understand Lewis was shot to death while trying to break up a fight outside the bootleg liquor establishment on South Broadway Street.
"Big C is what I called him," Yarbrough said. "He was a gentile giant.... He was a peacemaker."
According to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch, one 9-1-1 caller claimed to have heard at least 12 shots in the area.
We will continue to update this developing report as we learn more details.
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