Male shows up at hospital, tells police someone in passing car shot him

A victim of a shooting turned up at Grandview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon and Dayton police are working to determine what happened.

The male victim told police he was walking with friends on Otterbein Avenue, near Newton Avenue, when a car approached them and someone fired shots from that car, according to notes from police officers to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch.

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The victim turned up at Grandview about 4 p.m., according to a sergeant with regional dispatch. The hospital, on West Grand Avenue, is several blocks east of where the male said he was shot. There was no indication, from the notes, how the victim arrived at the hospital.

His condition is not known, but we're hearing on police and fire radio traffic that he was hit at least once in the chest.

We're working to learn more about this incident. We'll update this report as we learn more details.

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