Schock said he believed Doan was in good health and called his death “very unexpected. I’m very shocked and saddened.” An autopsy is scheduled for today, April 13, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
The two ran together for council on a platform of renewing the city and attracting new residential development and jobs, Schock said. They later had a falling out and in 2008, Schock accused Mr. Doan of threatening to shoot him.
It led to Mr. Doan’s arrest. The mayor pleaded to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct and apologized. The two shook hands over it.
In 2009, Mr. Doan was awarded the “Appalachian Unsung Hero Award” as an outstanding government leader by the Miami Valley Appalachian community.
The award noted that Mr. Doan “left Kentucky as a young man to join the United States Air Force and was a veteran of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He retired from the Air Force as a colonel.”
He was a lifetime member of VFW Post 657, a member of American Legion 776, a recipient of the Volunteer Group “Angel Award” from the Wright-Patterson Air Force wing commander , and committee member of the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall.
City Manager Bryan Chodkowski said city Law Director Dalma Grandjean is working on a transition plan. Meantime, Councilman Bill Flaute will assume mayoral duties.
In February, two city council members questioned whether Deputy Mayor Bill Flaute’s arrest in 2001 on a charge of public indecency should disqualify him from representing the city.
Flaute, 55, was accused of exposing himself to a male undercover detective in Deeds Park in Dayton. The arrest record was expunged in Dayton Municipal Court on Nov. 26, 2002, after a judge determined Flaute was a first-time offender with no prior or subsequent convictions. Under Ohio law, all court and police records are removed from the files when a case is expunged.
Flaute, who served 14 years on council and was the top vote-getter in the November election, said the issue is not relevant.
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