Shooting in my front yard - Dayton, OH

[tlynne]

That is crazy! I would not feel comfortable there after that. What is the rest of your neighborhood like? Do you know any of your other neighbors? Or is it "everyone keeps to themselves" kind of place?

So it's east Dayton, OH... about 5 min from the downtown area. I have lived in this general area for 8 years and my fiancé about 15 years. It's not the fancy part of down by any means, but it's certainly not the "hood". There's generally a mix of older folks who have lived here 20+ years and young couples/families. Lots of families move out of the area when their kids hit grade school age for better schooling opportunities or send their kid to a neighboring school via the voucher program. There's a decent mix of tenant owned homes and rentals. Probably a rental every 5ish properties I would assume? My fiancé and are are both in our 30s and bought our home almost 3 years ago. Have had absolutely no issues/concerns since moving in here. The duplex next to us was previously occupied by African refugees (there's a refugee program here in the city and they place them in homes) but the duplex was sold in march 2019 and they basically flipped one side, rented that out, then flipped the other side, and rented that side out. The unit furthest from our house (where the suspected shooter lives), these tenants have only been there since late January/early February and definitely made their presence known after moving in. This is not just us saying this, but our other neighbors as well.

As for the neighborhood dynamic, I mean, we aren't sitting on each others porches having beers every night lol, but my fiances buddy John lives caddy-corner from us, our neighbors next to us on the other side are an older couple with an affection for plants much like myself, and we spend a decent amount of time talking over the fence in our back yard over plants and neighborhood happenings. A couple of the houses across the street are occupied by multiple families, like grandma lives in one house, daughter in another, her kid and  his wife/kids in another. We all pick up the trash around the area, we wave and say hi to people out walking their dogs, we get tons of trick-or-treaters. It's a pretty average, drama-free, quiet, middle class neighborhood. There is a decent amount of police presence too as the station is just a couple blocks up from the house and our street is kind of a cut through street (lots of one-way streets in the neighborhood).