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| Da'Lyne Foster was killed by a gunman after a fight. She was pregnant and the medics had to deliver her child. The child is fighting for his life. |
In my community there's talk of a tragedy.
A mother of three and one expecting was killed this week in Dayton, Ohio after a gunman fired upon a crowd after they've gathered to see a fight.
The mother was an innocent bystander and was shot through the chest into her heart. She was pregnant and the medics had to rush her to the hospital to deliver her baby early. The baby is fighting for his life.
She was 27-years old and was attending Sinclair Community College. She was trying to move her life forward.
Dayton police are searching for the killer and witness are slowly coming forward.
In that area known as the DeSoto Bass Homes, it's one of the government instituted housing projects.
In regards that area and my friends and the formers, I knew this woman named Ashley Clack.
She was a former girlfriend at the time. I won't say I've hadn't had a enjoyable time with the woman but her history speaks for what goes on in that neighborhood.
I have dated Clack for some time and it wasn't one of my pleasant experiences with her. She was an ignorant young woman and later an ignorant young mother.
Like my former best friend Charles Barrett, this young woman relished on the ignorance of Black America to survive.
I don't speak volumes of those who lived in the housing projects. But for all who lived there and witnessed this fight, they're obviously at least a dozen who know the killer.
The Dayton Daily News is covering the story.
A baby boy, who was delivered after his mother was shot to death by a stray bullet, was in critical condition Thursday — the day his mother’s doctors planned to induce labor.
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| Ohio mom, Da'Lyne was expecting her fourth child. A cold blooded killer took that opportunity away from her. |
The boy had not been named and his grandmother has been at his side since his birth, Dayton homicide Sgt. Richard Blommel said. The boy is the son of Da’Lyne Foster, 27, who was a bystander during an escalating series of physical confrontations around the DeSoto Bass housing project near Stewart Street on Wednesday.
“We’re thankful for that small miracle. It could have been worse,” Blommel said about the baby’s birth.
Foster, a mother of three other children, is Dayton’s 15th homicide of 2013. In 2011, 38 people were murdered and last year 28 people died in homicides.
Just hours before Foster was shot, she posted this phrase on her Facebook account: “God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand his wisdom…”
Blommel described Foster as both a “friend of one of the combatants” and an “innocent bystander” struck in the chest when someone began firing at a car that was leaving the scene.
There is a person of interest in the case, a 45-year-old man, and police have the gun he was carrying at the time Foster was shot, Blommel said. Ballistics experts will compare the gun to a bullet recovered during Foster’s autopsy, he said.
The original disturbance started between two women who lived in DeSoto Bass. One had just moved in with her boyfriend and the other was his ex-girlfriend, Blommel said.
As the conflict escalated, participants began calling in friends and relatives and an unruly crowd formed.
“It was a very volatile situation,” Blommel said.
A police report examined by the Dayton Daily News showed that officers were called to 24 Bragg Place about 7:18 p.m. on the report that “people were pushing one another and getting ready to fight.” As officers drove to the scene, they were told that some people had guns, the report said.
When police arrived, no one was physically fighting, but some people were yelling at each other. After the officers calmed people down, they were approached by residents from 24 Bragg and 40 Bragg, the report said.
Shaquala Martin, who lives at 24 Bragg, said she needed a police report, because Britney Boyd, a resident at 40 Bragg, had allegedly broken her window. Police saw shattered glass around the storm door at Martin’s home. Martin told police that she had been having problems about Martin’s boyfriend, Davionte Jones, the report said.
Martin said she was outside her apartment with her son when Boyd and her family members started calling her names. She initially ignored them, but later agreed to fight Boyd. During that fight, one of Boyd’s friends joined in, so Martin fled back to her apartment and shut the door, she told police.
Officer Jacob Rillo reported that he ordered both Martin and Boyd to leave the area for the night to prevent further fights. Neither woman expressed any interest in prosecuting the other for the fight, and Martin was “just upset about her window being broken,” the report said.
Police monitored the situation, but left the area to take other calls, Blommel said.
Just before 9 p.m., several people called 911 to report Foster’s shooting. One caller said Foster was hit “right near the heart. And she’s pregnant.” Another reported that “they were shooting in the air.”
Foster, who was past term and scheduled to be induced today, was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m. Wednesday. The baby was delivered via C-section sometime overnight at Miami Valley Hospital’s Emergency and Trauma Center by an emergency and trauma team, according to hospital officials
The Dayton Daily News also reports the constant problems with that housing projects. They're were more than enough calls placed to this complex this year. Neighboring residents are getting fed up with it.
As the second round of disturbances built up, one man fired a gun several times in the air, causing a large crowd of people to run north out of the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority complex and across Stewart Street, with one group of people chasing another, Blommel said.
The man who fired into the air is not the person of interest in Foster’s death, Blommel said.
Some of the people who were fleeing got into a car, but were surrounded by the crowd. They would not move to let them leave. Someone in the car pulled out a gun and started firing into the air to disperse the crowd and the car began to move. Then someone started firing at the car, and Foster, who was standing nearby, was struck, Blommel said.
The person of interest is the father of one of the “original combatants,” and was carrying a small-caliber handgun, Blommel said. Ballistics testing is necessary as there were several people carrying guns at the scene, he said.
The person of interest was not arrested or booked into the county jail. He did give statements to police, but Blommel declined to comment on what he said.
Family members at the hospital declined to talk about the shooting.
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| DeSoto Bass Courts sits off Ohio Highway 4 near Interstate 75 in Dayton, Ohio. |
The DeSoto Bass Courts is the oldest public housing complex in the Dayton area. This, the Eagle Ridge and the Northland Village housing complexes cater to the majority of poor Black residents. Sometimes they cater to the poor White and Hispanic residents. These areas are prone to constant gun violence.
Conservatives/White supremacists associate public housing with Black or President Barack Obama. They considered the residents of public housing "animals" and "primates" because of the constant violence that occurs in those areas.
Despite the very few who would talk to police. The residents of these areas have a shaky relationship with the Montgomery County Sheriff and Dayton Police.
One of the complexes is close to the Montgomery County Sheriff's office. The DeSoto Bass complex is about a mile from one of the regional Dayton Police stations.
I for one would love to see these public housing places go down. I would rather see the Black family in a single family home instead of a bedbug infested hell hole. I don't want to see the Black family suffer with constant turmoils of gun violence, HIV/AIDS, STDs, domestic violence and poverty.
I don't want the Black family to view the police as an enemy. I know that police view Black men as natural born criminals and that's not fair. But if there's a problem, obviously I will call the police.
I would love to see the Black family use all the resources their taxpayers offer.
So what's the point of "NO SNITCHIN'" if you're paying for the police officers salaries?
I've said it best: Ignorance brings the worst in people. This incident is an example of the ignorance of Black America. For one thing, if you're going to bring a gun to a fist fight, obviously a gun is going to win.
The bullet has no eyes and it always hits a target.
An outpouring of sympathy comes from her friends on her
Facebook page.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Da'Lyne Foster.
Here's the graphic video posted on the social networks about the fight and another one that was post by an Android phone.
Of course me saying Android phone and housing projects is going to be an example of what conservatives call welfare queens in Cadillacs.
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