Dayton police spent Tuesday searching for the answers behind three shootings on Monday that sent four people to Miami Valley Hospital.

Three shootings in one evening is “definitely not an everyday thing,” according to Sgt. Dan Mauch.

“(Investigators) have been running to hospitals, doing background work and trying to get with victims, friends and family,” he said Tuesday afternoon.

Two shootings appear to be related, according to Mauch. Investigators believe the motive behind a shooting on Germantown Street at about 11:15 p.m. may have been retaliation from a shooting on Danner Avenue earlier Monday evening.

In between the two, police responded to an unrelated shooting on Philadelphia Drive. One person was taken to Miami Valley Hospital.

The Danner Avenue shooting sent a 42-year-old man to the hospital. According to Dayton police, the man said he was standing in a courtyard on the 1000 block of Danner when a dark sedan stopped and someone inside opened fire. The man was hit in his buttocks and the slug exited through his lower thigh.

Police noted the man was carrying a “large amount of money” at the time he was shot.

The possible “retaliation” shooting on Germantown Street sent a 19-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man to Miami Valley. Although the hospital would not release the conditions of the shooting victims on Tuesday, Mauch said none of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

In the Germantown incident, Mauch said shots were fired into the DeSoto Bass apartment complex from a vehicle on Germantown Street. Bullets riddled several residences in the area. “It’s amazing more people weren’t hurt,” Mauch said.

Investigators believe those involved in the shootings travel in the same circles and “have lived in the same apartment complex in the past.”

No arrests have been made, but Mauch said there are at least four suspects between both shootings. The shootings that appear to be related do not appear to be gang-related, he said.

In the Philadelphia shooting, men were reportedly fighting in the street around 9:15 p.m. A passer-by stopped because he thought one of the combatants needed help, according to Lt. Wendy Stiver.

The male driver — who was not identified — got out, stepped on the hands of the men to prevent them from firing the weapon, took possession of it and told the men to stay where they were.

One of the men ran to a house on Shakespeare Avenue, where he told the occupant he had been shot during the initial struggle.

Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to callpolice at (937) 333-COPS.