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By Kyle Nagel
| Thursday, January 8, 2009, 10:04 AM
DAYTON — A Dayton man already in jail for threatening to kill his 84-year-old mother and three other people could face an additional charge for calling his mother repeatedly from Montgomery County Jail and making more threats.
The man, 49-year-old Brian Stonerock, was first arrested Tuesday, Jan. 6, when he first threatened his mother after he returned from his first anger management class, according to a police report.
His mother called police again Wednesday saying that Stonerock was phoning her from the prison. The calls started Tuesday night, she said, and Stonerock was apologizing and saying he lied, according to the report.
When the calls resumed Wednesday, Stonerock was “enraged” and again threatened to kill her, her health care nurse and a neighbor if she didn’t stop pursuing a charge of aggravated menacing. During one call, Stonerock told his mother, “The next time I see you, you’ll be in a coffin,” she told police.
Police contacted the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, which said it was in the process of filing a Temporary Restraining Order against Stonerock. Jail officials told police his phone privileges would be taken away, the report said.
Police are pursuing a charge of intimidation of a witness to pair with the earlier charge of aggravated menacing, the report said.
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By Kyle Nagel
| Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 02:38 PM
DAYTON — Police arrested a man who, fresh from his first anger management class, threatened to kill his 84-year-old mother and three other people on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Officers responded to the 1900 block of Coventry Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a woman’s son was yelling at her, according to a police report. When officers arrived they discovered a visibly shaken 84-year-old woman whose son told police he was upset that she was telling someone else “my business.”
After officers separated mother and son, they learned that the son had just been to the VA hospital for his first anger management class that day. The woman told police the son, 49, threatened to kill her, her health care nurse, the nurse’s son and a neighbor, the report said.
The son told his mother “that he was going to kill her, then blindfold (the nurse), take a baseball bat to his head, and then later on, everyone would find (the nurse’s) baby in a dumpster far away,” the report said.
The mother said she was frightened of her son and wanted to press charges because “something needs to happen.”
The son was arrested on a charge of aggravated menacing.
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By Kyle Nagel
| Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 10:03 AM
In the early 1970s, Dennis Chaney was close friends with a fellow Fairmont East High School student whose father was a sergeant with the Dayton Police Department. Later, while in college at South Dakota State, Chaney received a call from the friend’s father, who said the department was hiring.
“That was the furthest thing from what I thought I would be doing,” Chaney said. “I was taking wildlife biology.”
While on a break, Chaney took the department test and returned to school. Soon after, he received a card in the mail asking him to return to Dayton because he was high in the list of candidates. The department wanted him to interview.
“I had to make a decision,” Chaney said, “and I never looked back.”
Thirty-five years later, a crowded room saluted the 55-year-old Chaney on Wednesday, Jan. 7, for his retirement after 35 years with the DPD. A sergeant, Chaney was head of the robbery squad, financial crimes unit and the bomb squad.
Chaney will move on to a job with a company that contracts with the military.
“They seek people with law enforcement experience, primarily in investigation,” Chaney said over a background of heavy conversation, coffee and pastries. “You’re assigned to a branch of the service, Army or Marines, and you go where they go, do what they do, wear what they wear, and you help advise them on investigations they’re responsible for doing.”
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By Lucas Sullivan
| Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:43 PM
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County - The 1999 Honda authorities believe Charlie Myers drove from Columbus to Jenny Nelson’s home on Friday, Jan. 2, was left unlocked with the keys inside when it was stolen from an Ohio State University parking lot on Dec. 17.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s investigators believe Myers stole the car belonging to Nelson’s husband, Eddie Nelson Jr., at around midnight on Dec. 17, then drove to the Nelson home on Jan. 2, where he shot and killed Jenny Nelson and kidnapped the couple’s 4-year-old son.
The boy was later found at a highway rest area near the Madison and Clark county line.
The Nelsons called Ohio State University police at 12:19 a.m. on Dec. 17 after leaving a concert at the Newport Music Hall on North High Street and said their car had been stolen, according to an OSU police report. The couple told police the car was left unlocked with the keys inside, according to the report.
Inside the car was Eddie Nelson’s Social Security card, cell phone, wallet and a toy bike that was a Christmas present for their 4-year-old son, according to the report.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies found the car when they went to the Nelson home at 80 Redder Ave. on Jan .2 after the 4-year-old boy told them his mother had been shot.
Inside the house they found Jenny Nelson shot to death in the hallway, investigators said. Myers drove an Oldsmobile Alero belonging to Jenny’s mother back to Columbus where it was later recovered on Broad Street, investigators said.
Inside Myers’ apartment on Sunday, police found keys to the Honda, along with a cell phone, laptop, Playstation 2 and a day planner belonging to the Nelsons.
Myers later confessed to his involvement with Jenny Nelson’s murder, Sheriff Phil Plummer said.
Myers is in Franklin County Jail awaiting transport back to Montgomery County. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office is expected to decide on charges he faces sometime today, Jan. 6.
Stay with DaytonDailyNews.com for more information on this story.
Staff writer Laura Bischoff contributed to this report.
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By Lucas Sullivan
| Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 09:01 AM
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County - The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, Jan. 6, approved eight counts of felony aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated robbery and four counts of kidnapping against a Columbus man in the death of a Harrison Twp. woman.
Investigators believe Charlie Myers drove from Columbus to Jenny Nelson’s home nearly two weeks after Myers stole her car. They think Myers shot and killed Nelson and took her 4-year-old boy, but later left the boy at a rest stop along Interstate 70.
Myers also faces a felony count of gross sexual imposition, grand theft auto, receiving stolen property and having weapons under disability.
Prosecutors will meet at a later date to determine if they will seek the death penalty, according to a news release from Prosecutor Mat Heck’s office.
Myers, armed with a shotgun, kicked open the Nelsons’ front door at about 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 2, tied up Jenny Nelson and then went looking for the boy, Sheriff Phil Plummer said.
Nelson, 29, broke free from her restraints, grabbed a knife and then stabbed Myers in the back while he was trying to have sexual contact with the boy, investigators said. That’s when Myers grabbed a shotgun and fatally shot Nelson twice in the abdomen, according to the investigators and the Montgomery County Coroner’s office.
Myers then kidnapped the boy, but dropped him off at an Interstate 70 rest area near the Madison and Clark county line at about 8:30 p.m. Friday, Plummer said.
Plummer said he did not believe the 29-year-old mother was sexually assaulted.
It is unclear how Myers knew Jenny and Eddie Nelson had a 4-year-old son. It was Myers who allegedly stole the Nelsons’ Honda from an Ohio State University parking lot on Dec. 17.
Inside the car was Eddie Nelson’s wallet, along with Jenny Nelson’s purse, according to a police report. Eddie Nelson was at work when his wife was killed, Plummer said.
In a search warrant affidavit filed Monday in Franklin County Municipal Court, authorities went to Myers’ apartment at 70 McMillen Ave. on Sunday, looking for a blue laptop and cell phone he allegedly stole from the Nelsons’ home, written directions to the Nelson home, as well as a vibrator, a sexual enhancement device, personal lubricant and any clothing bearing blood or other bodily fluids.
Inside Myers’ apartment, authorities found the laptop, Jenny Nelson’s cell phone and bloody underwear in the apartment, according to the affidavit. Plummer said the underwear belonged to Myers. They also found shotgun shells, printed directions to the Nelson home, a day planner with a picture of a child and keys to the stolen Honda.
FBI agents tracked Myers through Nelson’s cell phone number and determined her cell phone was used twice in Columbus after her death, according to a search warrant affidavit. One of those calls, made late Sunday morning, was made to Myers’ cell phone.
Authorities took Myers into custody at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. He confessed to Nelson’s slaying and the kidnapping of her 4-year-old son at about 4 a.m. Monday, Plummer said.
Myers is being held in Franklin County jail on a charge of aggravated murder. He is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.
The 4-year-old boy was taken for a medical exam shortly after he was found at the rest stop. He is expected to recover from his physical injuries, Eddie Nelson said on NBC’s Today Show Monday.
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By Lucas Sullivan
| Monday, January 5, 2009, 09:17 AM
DAYTON - A man shot in the chest in his apartment died Monday morning, Jan. 5.
Derrick E. Gates, 44, was found shot at about 11 p.m. in apartment 23 of a complex near the corner of Niagra and Wheatley avenues, according to police. He was taken to Miami Valley Hospital where he died from his injuries.
Homicide detectives were called to scene. There are no suspects at this time, but witnesses saw a man described to be in his 20s and wearing a tan coat running from the area just after shots rang out, according to police.
Gates is the first homicide victim in the city this year.
Stay with DaytonDailyNews.com for more information.
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By Lucas Sullivan
| Friday, January 2, 2009, 11:19 AM
DAYTON - The driver of a car that crashed early New Year’s Day Thursday, killing all occupants inside, recently had his license reinstated after numerous suspensions, according to Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle records.
Shawn E. Roush, 32, of 253 S. Harbine Ave., was found guilty of driving under suspension for at least the third time in March, according to Dayton Municipal Court records.
He was convicted of driving without a license in June after Dayton police were called to the 1600 block of North Keowee Street on April 29 on suspicious activity, according to police records.
Roush had knocked on the door of Room 44 at the Dayton Motor Motel and said he was looking for “Hillbilly.” He was later stopped in a 1996 red Pontiac Grand Prix and police discovered he was driving on a suspended license.
He told officers he had a crack problem, according to police records.
The Grand Prix was the same car Roush was driving when it crashed into metal fencing outside the NexGen Supply Building, 450 North Findlay St., just after midnight Thursday, Jan. 1. Police estimate the car was traveling about 90 mph when it crossed railroad tracks and became airborne.
Roush died instantly, along with his brother Dustin McDonald, 22; Trisha Roush, 33; Nichole Hill, 29; and Hill’s 11-month-old son Hayden Hill. No one was ejected from the vehicle.
Police suspect alcohol was involved, and Shawn’s family said he had been drinking at a New Year’s party just before midnight.
Shawn Roush had his license reinstated on June 28, according to state BMV records. Police records also show he was pulled over on March 1 and was driving without a license.
At the time, Shawn Roush told police he was taking a friend to buy heroin, according to police records. His license was suspended in 1997 and again in 1998 by the BMV until 2003.
Stay with DaytonDailyNews.com for more information on this developing story.
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