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On July 26, 2011, 18-year-old DaVontae Raglin was standing on the porch of a house on N. Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton when shots were fired from a vehicle positioned in a nearby alley. Raglin was hit in the arm and temple; multiple rounds penetrated the occupied house and he later died at Miami Valley Hospital that evening. The surrounding block was marked by vacancy and boarded homes, the porch house reportedly the only occupied residence on the street.

Police say Raglin was not known to be in a gang, though investigators looked into possible drug-related motives. He had prior encounters with law enforcement and had been targeted in an earlier FBI Safe Streets Task Force drug operation; no adult charges were filed from that crackdown. No clear motive has been established and the vehicle and shooters have not been publicly identified.

Does anyone who lived in that neighborhood in 2011 or who has information about a vehicle seen in the alley that afternoon contact Dayton Police with what they know?