On April 21, 2018, 29-year-old Darion Harris was fatally shot outside Rick’s Jazz Lab in Dayton, Ohio. Harris was pronounced dead at the scene; his companion, 28-year-old Ashley James, later died at Miami Valley Hospital. The couple had a newborn son two months old at the time and Harris also left behind three daughters.

Surveillance footage showed a man later identified as 26-year-old James Davison of Miamisburg driving an SUV through the parking lot, stopping next to the pickup carrying Harris and James, and firing between 17 and 21 rounds from a .40 caliber handgun into the truck. Two other occupants in the back seat were not injured. Davison was arrested May 23, 2018, indicted on multiple charges including aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence, and was sentenced in October 2019 to 48 years to life; an appeal in May 2021 added three years, for a total of 51 years to life.

Does anyone have information about Harris’s life in Dayton or knew the family and can share memories or details that might add context to this case?