Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on July 17, 2025, multiple callers reported gunfire near West Fairview Avenue and Emerson Avenue in Dayton. Officers found 55-year-old Shawn Irvin inside a parked vehicle with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office later identified him and local memorial pages list July 17, 2025, as his date of death.

Dayton Police Homicide detectives opened an investigation after a heavy police response. Dispatch recordings and neighborhood accounts describe several shots that night, and reporting notes that the stretch of West Fairview had seen other gunfire incidents within the same week, increasing community concern.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about who fired the shots that killed Shawn Irvin, please share what is known with Dayton Police.