Violent night
Dayton Police responded to three violent incidents in a short time span early Sunday:
12:15 a.m. — Police respond to 3132 Wexford Place after reports of shots fired. Officers shoot and kill Kisha Arrone, 35, who police say was firing a gun into the air and walking toward a group of people.
12:20 a.m. — Shooting reported in the 600 block of Summit Square Drive. Gunshot victim shows up at Miami Valley Hospital.
1:20 a.m. — A security officer finds Eric Parker, 45, dead on Shoop Avenue. The death is being investigated as a homicide.
Dayton Police said Sunday that three officers shot and killed a woman who fired a gun into the air as she was approaching a group of bystanders that included her domestic partner.
The woman was identified as Kisha Arrone, 35, who police say was killed after she refused commands to drop her gun. She died at the scene.
“In an effort to protect Arrone’s domestic partner and other individuals in harm’s way, three Dayton Police Officers discharged their weapons to stop Arrone,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said at an afternoon news conference.
Police responded to the area of 3132 Wexford Place about 12:15 a.m. Sunday after receiving calls of shots fired. Biehl said officers discoverered Arrone had been involved in a “violent encounter” with her domestic partner.
“It was reported to officers that during this altercation Ms. Arrone held a gun to her domestic partner’s head and threatened to kill her,” Biehl said. He said Arrone fired the gun during that struggle.
Arrone fled in a pickup truck and was stopped when police used spike strips to deflate the tires. She held a gun to her own head before getting out of the truck, police said.
“She refused the officers’ commands to drop the gun and fired the gun into the air while walking toward her domestic partner and a group of individuals nearby,” Biehl said.
Arrone’s cousin, Monique Spears, said police could have used a Taser on Arrone, and “to draw guns and shoot my cousin 15 times, that’s overkill.”
“I’m hearing that she did shoot off a couple rounds earlier due to an altercation with a significant other person,” Spears said. “But everything pretty much after that was not to the point — it was calm to the point when the police was called. They could have apprehended her peacefully.”
Biehl did not take questions at the press conference and said “relevant evidence” will be released today.
He did say the incident was one of three shootings that occurred early Sunday in west Dayton.
“This incident was an accumulation of a 90-minute period which included a shooting felonious assault that occurred at 3132 Wexford Place as well as a homicide at 411 Shoop Avenue and a shooting felonious assault at 601 Summit Square — a very violent period early (Sunday) morning in west Dayton,” Biehl said.
Dayton Police are investigating the incident. The three officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard protocol, police said.
Same address
The incident that ended with Arrone’s death wasn’t the first at the address on Wexford Place. Arrone was arrested in July 2015 after a woman called police and said Arrone broke out her window with a tire iron and threatened to shoot at her home, according to a police report.
The address of the home listed in that report was the same address police responded to early Sunday.
The woman told police she invited Arrone to her house, but asked Arrone to leave because she was intoxicated and hostile. Arrone said she wouldn’t leave until she found her cell phone, the report said. Arrone allegedly broke out the window and the woman was able to lock her out of the home.
Arrone then “made motions acting as if she was carrying a hand gun, reaching around her waist,” a police report said.
A search of online court records did not indicate Arrone was prosecuted for the incident.
Criminal history
Arrone, who also used the first name of Keisha or Kisia, had a history of legal problems. She was convicted of aggravated robbery in Miami County Common Pleas Court in 2000 and was sentenced to five years in prison, according to online court records.
Arrone was indicted and pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to having weapons while under disability in 2007. She was sentenced to one year in prison.
She was indicted for the same offense in Montgomery County in 2013, but was acquitted after a judge found that the state could not prove Arrone knew about a gun found between a mattress and box spring in her room while a search warrant was served to recover stolen property from the residence of a relative.
Arrone was arrested in April 2014 after police heard gunshots and saw a muzzle flash in a house, according to a police report.
Officers searched the house and overheard a woman on the phone talking about Arrone firing the gun. Officers were unable to locate the gun but found shell casings on the front porch. Children were present, according to the report.
Arrone resisted officers’ orders and became disorderly, eventually trying to kick out the back window of a squad car after she was placed under arrest.
But Spears painted a very different picture of her cousin, saying she cared deeply about her family.
“She had the biggest smile. She took care of all of us. She always protected us. Beautiful laugh,” Spears said. “The only thing she ever did was joke around and have fun … she had a lot of life to live and a lot of love.”
NewsCenter 7 reporter Natalie Jovonovich contributed to this report.
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