Deelaquan Smith, 23, was shot late on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, in the parking lot of an apartment complex off Valerie Arms Drive in Dayton, Ohio. Police were dispatched around 11:23 p.m.; medics transported Smith to Miami Valley Hospital, where he died from his wounds. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified him publicly two days later on August 15.

Neighbors told reporters the gunfire woke them, and officers processed the scene through the night, photographing vehicles and stringing crime-scene tape around the complex. Detectives from the Dayton Police Department’s Homicide Unit are handling the investigation. The shooting occurred just hours after an unrelated fatal shooting elsewhere in the city, a sequence that stretched investigative resources overnight. No suspects, motives, or arrests have been announced and the case remains open.

If anyone saw activity in the parking lot off Valerie Arms Drive that night or has information about Deelaquan Smith’s killing, please share what is known with Dayton police.