Police find 2 men dead in car that hit house and third man shot nearby

Two men were found dead Thursday afternoon after police responded to a shooting in Dayton. Officers also found a third man, who had been shot, police said.

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Police have not been able to establish a motive and are searching for a suspect or suspects, Dayton Sgt. Creigee S. Coleman told News Center 7 on Thursday night.

As reported on News Center 7 at 6, Dayton police and medics were called to the 900 block of Cleverly Road about 4 p.m. on reports of a shooting.

Police found the dead men in a car that appeared to have crashed in the back of a house on Cleverly, Coleman said, and police found the third man outside a house on Cleverly who had been shot in his lower extremities. He was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, where he was reportedly in critical condition, Coleman said.

No one was in the house, the sergeant said.

Homicide investigators are working to determine whether the two men were shot to death. Police could not confirm the names or ages of the three men, he said.

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People living in the neighborhood said they were furious to see this kind of violence.

“This is sad,” said one, Gary Pullen. “These are two families here that’s going through a crisis at this point. Dayton didn’t used to be like this.”

When police arrived on scene, people in the neighborhood were screaming, yelling and crying.

“We need to do better to get these guns up out of here,” Pullen said, “because there are other ways that we could direct our energy and our anger.”

If you have information about what happened, you are asked to call the Dayton Police Department at (937) 333-2677.

We will continue to follow this story.