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Updated: 6:39 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 | Posted: 12:53 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
By Andy Sedlak
FAIRBORN —
Fairborn police devoted all of their investigative resources on Monday to the second homicide of 2012 after the city went three straight years without one.
Shortly before midnight, police responded to a shooting in an upstairs room at Ivy Manor Apartments at West Funderburg Road and Woodvine Street. At least four shots were reportedly fired in apartment D4 at 159 W. Funderburg Rd.
The shooting victim was identified as 22-year-old Jerelle Prather by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
Police believe after he was hit he may have jumped from a window. He was found lying on Woodvine Street. Prather was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said they do not have a suspect, and all of the department’s detectives — four people plus a supervisor — were devoted to the homicide investigation on Monday.
“When it comes to stuff like this, it takes the whole section to do it,” said Fairborn police Sgt. Paul Hicks.
This is the second homicide of the year. The first was recorded on May 24. In early September, Jamie L. Farmer, 32, was indicted by a Greene County grand jury for a case stemming a death investigation at 1923 Zimmerman Ave., lot 32.
Farmer remains at large. The indictment against Farmer charges him with involuntary manslaughter, corrupting another with drugs, tampering with evidence, and drug trafficking (heroin). All of the charges are felonies.
That homicide was the first in Fairborn since 2008. Two in one year taxes a small department, Hicks said.
“The only effect is the demand on resources,” he said. “It slows down other investigations … (But) there are no issues with the evidence collection or anything. We’ve got the best people around.”
The apartment complex on Monday declined to comment on the shooting.
Sarah Ward, 24, has lived nearby on Woodvine for less than a year. The mother of two was stunned when she heard of the homicide.
“Letting my kids play outside makes me nervous,” she said. “You don’t see a lot of things like that happen in Fairborn.”
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