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Relative of kidnapping victim freaks out in front of police
It was a wild afternoon in Dayton on Wednesday, Aug. 13.
A Dayton police officer stopped what could have been an execution-style murder because he was at the right place at the right time.
Just as that was happening a man in a garage just up the street on Salem Avenue — two blocks from Good Samaritan Hospital — was gunned down while in a garage.
After all the TV news crews had left, along with a majority of responding officers, a man came running to the scene on Salem Avenue screaming “Has my brother been shot? That’s my brother man.”
Lt. Robert Chabali asked who his brother was and the man responded with an answer that made Chabali’s eyes widen.
He pulled the man aside, made a call to a fellow lieutenant and turned to the man and said his brother is fine.
That was the good news.
The bad news?
The emotional brother was at the wrong crime scene. Chabali had to tell him it was his brother who was pistol whipped and kidnapped by a group of men who might have been planning to kill him.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!,” the brother screamed. “Who did it? Who did it? Did they shoot him?
Chabali told him he had to run down a few blocks and ask detectives there.
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