JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP – More details have been released about a shooting at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds over the weekend.
On Saturday around 3:30 p.m., Jefferson Township deputies were called to the Montgomery County Fairgrounds for a report of a shooting, News Center 7 previously reported.
When officers arrived at the scene they found a man in front of his car with a gun at his feet, according to a police report obtained by News Center 7 through a public records request.
The man told deputies he had driven overnight from his home in North Carolina to a dog show at the fairgrounds.
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He was tired from the trip, so he decided to take a nap in the back seat of his car, while leaving the car running.
He woke up banging on the car window and saw two or three men outside his car, with one of them trying to break the glass in the back window, according to the report.
He yelled several times at the suspects when one of the suspects pulled out a gun.
The man pulled out his own gun, which he was licensed to carry in Ohio, and fired a shot through the driver’s side rear window, striking one of the suspects in the chest, the report said.
While searching the area, officers said they found a small window breaker and saw multiple hits to the driver’s side window “consistent with glass being broken.”
Deputies were later notified that the suspect had checked into Miami Valley Hospital with a gunshot wound.
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Authorities were later alerted to a woman who said her car had been stolen during the shooting.
The woman said she arrived at the fairgrounds and got out of her rental car, leaving it running as she was only expected to be inside for a few minutes.
She was walking back to her car, heard the attempted robbery and ran to her friend’s car in the opposite direction.
When he returned to his car minutes later, he found it was gone, according to the report.
Officers later found his rental car at Miami Valley Hospital, where hospital police had secured it after the shooting victim arrived.
We are working to learn the condition of the man who was shot and what charges he faces.
