Robert Traylor, a 22-year-old African American man from Riverside, Ohio, was shot and killed in the early morning of July 1, 2018. Officers found him about 1:18 a.m. in the parking lot of the United Dairy Farmers at 3026 Harshman Road in Dayton with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was taken to Miami Valley Hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival; the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

Traylor was a former student of the Victory Project, an after-school program for young men in Dayton; the program’s founder and CEO, Monnie Bush, said his death was a heavy loss for the community. As of the latest reports, Dayton police had not released information about suspects or arrests and the investigation remained ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened that night at the Harshman Road United Dairy Farmers, please come forward to assist the investigation.