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Basketball ambush leads to 22-year prison sentence
DAYTON — A man convicted of shooting another person during a basketball court ambush which left Thomas “Tom-Tom” Watson dead was sentenced Tuesday, March 9, to 22 years in prison.
Chamare Mays, 21, was convicted March 1 of felonious assault, tampering with evidence and one count of inducing panic, plus firearms specifications on all three counts. The felonious assault charge involved the shooting of Fabian Q. Gentry, not Watson.
However, the jury deadlocked on four counts, including two counts of murder in Watson’s death. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Gregory F. Singer set a June 7 date for a re-trial on those charges.
Watson, 25, was a high-ranking member of the DVH gang when he was gunned down April 16 on a College Hill Park basketball court.
Mays surrendered to police on April 21 and has been in custody since.
Dayton police said last year that Mays was one of three gunmen, some wearing masks, who fired at a group of men who were playing on the Shaftesbury Road basketball court. Mays isn’t the gunman who killed Watson, detectives said, but they believe he shot one man in the leg.
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