Body of 32-year-old man found in Dayton alley; Neighbors say they saw nothing suspicious

Neighbors say they didn’t see any suspicious activity after learning a dead body was found in a Dayton alley Tuesday morning.

Before 9 a.m., police responded to the 2200 block of Oakridge after city sanitation workers and a resident found a body in an alley Tuesday morning, according to a previous News Center 7 report.

The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the body as 32-year-old Joshua M T Brown.

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As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00 , Shawn Grant was walking his dog Sky down the alley around midnight but didn’t see anything.

“I came up the alley. There was nothing going on there. My dog would have picked it up, she has to stop to smell everything,” Shawn Grant said.

About seven hours later, Fred Harris said he took out his garbage and saw Brown’s body.

“This body was lying in the alley like a piece of trash,” Harris said.

Harris quickly noticed waste management and had them call the police.

“There’s a black male non-responsive in the alley. They say his pants is partially half off,” a sanitation worker told a 911 dispatcher.

Harris said he didn’t see anything suspicious on Brown’s body.

“No gunshot wound, stab wound, was no blood and nothing like that,” Harris said.

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Neighbors call this a tight-knit community, but no one knew Brown.

“Makes me think somethings up, that someone killed him,” Harris said.

Some neighbors said they didn’t know about the discovery until News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott informed them.

The Dayton Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating this death.

We will continue to follow this story.