On February 22, 2023, 22-year-old Dameka Ross of Trotwood, Ohio, was shot and killed in Dayton. The Dayton Police Department learned of the incident after a 28-year-old man with a gunshot wound arrived at Kettering Health Dayton; officers then learned of a second victim on state Route 49 near Little Richmond Road. Trotwood police found Ross deceased inside a vehicle, and the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified her.

A 34-year-old Dayton man, Steven Lamar Miller, was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting, facing two counts of murder and four counts of felonious assault as well as a weapons-under-disability charge tied to a prior 2009 aggravated robbery conviction. At trial, the judge acquitted Miller of the murder and felonious assault counts but convicted him of having weapons while under disability. The judge noted the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Miller was the shooter, citing conflicting witness descriptions and DNA from a cigarette butt that matched the injured man and an unknown male but not Miller.

Did anyone in the Dayton or Trotwood area see activity on state Route 49 near Little Richmond Road that night or know of witnesses who have not yet come forward?