On May 18, 2023, 28-year-old Jeffrey James Buke Allen III of Dayton, Ohio, was shot and killed at the DMAX engine plant in Moraine, where he worked. The shooting happened at about 9 p.m. and was reported as arising from a domestic dispute between Allen and a male co-worker over a female colleague. The suspect brought a semi-automatic handgun into the facility and fired at least a dozen rounds, primarily targeting Allen. Allen was pronounced dead at the scene; another employee suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the foot.

The suspect shot himself in the head at the plant and survived; he was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. In December 2024, that suspect, Frederick Cox, was sentenced to 29 to 33 years to life in prison for the shooting. Family members remembered Jeffrey as a devoted father to daughter Ny’Raih and son J’Air, a 2013 graduate of Marshall High School in Middletown, and a worker at DMAX and Green Tokai who loved his family, humor, and the Los Angeles Lakers. His brother Jiger Allen described him as protective and uplifting.

If anyone knew Jeffrey, his routines, or the events at the Moraine plant that night, can you share what you remember?