Shootout in car leaves 2 men dead, 1 critically hurt; bullets hit local high school, police say

Dayton Police released new information about a shooting near Thurgood Marshall High School that left two men dead and one critically injured.

Police were called to the 900 block of Cleverly Road around 4 p.m. on Thursday on reports of a shooting.

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Two men, identified Monday as 18-year-old Damarius Underwood and 25-year-old Dejuan Hooker, were found dead in a car that appeared to have crashed into the back of a house on Cleverly Road. Another man was found with critical injuries in a nearby yard.

The driver of the car was originally parked along the curb but then two men stepped inside and the conversation turned violent, leading to a shootout.

“The backseat passenger exited the back window,” Major Brian Johns said. “He had been shot several times.”

Johns said two other people dragged that man into a yard and then ran away. The driver of the car tried to drive away but only got a block before crashing into the house.

As shown on News Center 7 at 5:30 , we asked police if that injured man had been cooperative with the investigation.

“I won’t comment on that right now,” Johns said, noting the two men who helped him momentarily were not being helpful.

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Police said bullets were flying everywhere during the shooting while a lot of people were outside. They even found some of those gunshots hit the nearby high school.

Dayton Mayor Jeff Mims told News Center 7′s Mike Campbell that he and city commissioners are committed to investing in reducing gun violence. They’ve heard the Dayton Chapter of the NAACP’s call for bringing back a gun buy-back program and Mims wants to bring a program called Violence Interruption to Dayton. He said the program, run by a third-party group, has worked in New York and Philadelphia.

“So it will not be run by the police, it will not be run by the city,” Mims said.

The catch to any program like this is that it costs money. Mims estimated the Violence Interruption program might have a price tag of $428,000.