Name not reported
A man held in Montgomery County custody was receiving treatment at Kettering Health Dayton on January 26, 2024, when, according to the Dayton Police Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, he took a deputy's gun and left the hospital. Police said they located him at a house on Squirrel Road in Dayton, where he had a single gunshot wound that they describe as self-inflicted. He was pronounced dead shortly after. The deputy was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Dayton Police Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office say the man shot himself with a deputy's gun after escaping from the hospital.
Reported by: Dayton Police Department (the agency that held him); Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.