Saeed Salah was 38 when he was killed on the night of August 4, 2019, during the mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District. An immigrant from Eritrea who had spent time in a Sudanese refugee camp, he had settled in Dayton and worked as a forklift operator, often taking extra shifts to support his wife and daughter in the city and two children who remained abroad. Salah was standing outside a nightclub with a friend when the gunman opened fire; he sustained fatal gunshot wounds to his torso and was one of nine people killed in just over 30 seconds.

Dayton police officers engaged the shooter, who was killed at the scene while attempting to enter a crowded bar; no other suspects were identified. The Sudanese Community of Greater Dayton and others in the city remembered Salah as kindhearted and hardworking. If anyone knew Saeed Salah or has information about his life in Dayton that could help remember him, please share what is known.