Dayton man identified as homicide victim found in street

Multiple evidence markers are in the street and lead up to a house with boarded-up windows near Stanford Place and Harold Drive in Dayton Monday morning. A person is dead after a 911 caller reported a bloody person had been found. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

Multiple evidence markers are in the street and lead up to a house with boarded-up windows near Stanford Place and Harold Drive in Dayton Monday morning. A person is dead after a 911 caller reported a bloody person had been found. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

A man found dead in bloody clothes Monday at Stanford Place and Harold Drive has been identified.

Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger identified the victim as 46-year-old Todd Gomez of Dayton.

His cause and manner of death have not been determined yet.

Around 8:20 a.m. police responded to the area after a City of Dayton Public Works employee called and said a waste collection crew reported that they found a body in the street.

“There is [what] they think is a deceased man laying in the street,” the caller said. “He’s bloody.”

It is not clear what led to Gomez’s death.

Dayton police are continuing to investigate.

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