Opinion ID: 3149633
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Heading: Drive-by shooting on Dibert Avenue

Text: {¶ 11} Kaboos testified that on the evening of April 12, 2005, Dean talked with his brother, Mark Dean, about looking for a car and a house on Dibert Avenue in Springfield. Later that evening, Dean, Joshua Wade, and Kaboos drove to Dibert Avenue in Dean’s Buick Riviera. According to Kaboos, Wade was driving, Dean was in the front passenger seat, and she was in the backseat. Kaboos stated that Wade was armed with a “black .45” and Dean had a “smaller, silver gun.” Kaboos asked Dean and Wade what they were doing, and they said that they were “just looking for a house and a car.” {¶ 12} Kaboos stated that when they arrived at Dibert Avenue, Wade turned off the headlights, and they drove down the street. Kaboos saw Dean and Wade stick their guns out the passenger window and fire several shots. Kaboos closed her eyes and covered her ears and ducked down in the backseat. She then felt the 3 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO car speed up and turn around. But Kaboos stated that was the last thing she remembered. {¶ 13} Laroilyn Byrd testified that she and her sister, Jinada Madison, who lived at 604 Dibert Street, were in the living room when the shots were fired and that bullets started flying through the room. The two women took cover, and Byrd called 9-1-1 to report the shooting. Neither Byrd nor Madison was hit. Byrd then went outside and saw people come onto the porch at 609 Dibert Avenue, the house across the street. {¶ 14} Seven people were inside the home at 609 Dibert. Shani Applin testified that Devon Williams Sr., his girlfriend, Shanta Chilton, Shanta’s brother, Hassan Chilton, Applin, and Applin’s young child, JaeAda Applin, were in the front room watching TV. Shanta’s two young children, Dyier and Samiara, were in bed inside the house. {¶ 15} According to Shanta, Williams’s car was parked across from the house, partially in front of Byrd’s house at 604 Dibert. After hearing the gunfire and his car alarm go off, Williams and Shanta went outside to look at his car. Hassan, Applin, and JaeAda went out to the front porch. Williams noticed that his car had numerous bullet holes, particularly near the gas tank. {¶ 16} Shanta testified that while they were examining Williams’s car, she noticed a car coming towards them. Shanta ran back to the house. As she got to the porch, the car stopped in front of the house. Shanta then saw a “white guy” in the car look at her and start shooting. When the gunfire erupted, everyone on the porch dove for cover. No one was injured by the gunfire, but Hassan later noticed a bullet hole in his jacket. {¶ 17} Williams testified that he had remained by his car, an Oldsmobile, when the shooting started again. Williams saw a young person shooting at the house but did not see anyone else in the car. He later identified the shooter as Wade. 4 January Term, 2015 {¶ 18} Investigators found five bullet holes in the left rear quarter panel of the Oldsmobile. In addition, a .25-caliber bullet was recovered from the car’s rear window trim. Investigators also identified two bullet holes in the living room wall at 604 Dibert. Neither bullet was recovered. {¶ 19} Investigators found evidence that four bullets struck the front porch area at 609 Dibert. Timothy Shepherd, a forensic criminalist with the Springfield Police Department Crime Laboratory, determined that a bullet recovered from the front porch pillar was “probably” a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson bullet. Shepherd also determined that a spent bullet found inside the house was a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson bullet. However, no comparisons to a weapon could be made because “much of the striations and actually, the bullet jacket had been removed.” {¶ 20} Before trial, Dean told Manns that he was paid to do the drive-by shooting. Manns testified that Dean said that he “drove down the street, shot up the house, turned around at the end of the street, came back and shot at people coming out of the house; and one of them was holding a baby in his arms that he almost shot because the bullet actually went through his shirt sleeve.”