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Bizarre creek killings have police looking for surveillance video
JEFFERSON TWP., Montgomery County - Homicide detectives are trying to find the last time anyone saw alive two men found dead near a rural creek; creating a scene investigators believe was meant to send a message to a person or group.
Investigators with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office believe Nathan Gay and Harvey Sims Jr. were not homeless, but might have stayed in government-subsidized housing or with friends.
Both Sims, 54, and Gay, 49, were shot multiple times, including at least once execution-style in their heads, investigators said.
Sims and Gay might have been killed somewhere else and their bodies then driven to a creek that runs perpendicular to the 2700 block of Germantown-Liberty Road, Chief Deputy Scott Landis said
The bodies were carried by foot down to the creek bank and then placed near the water, Landis said. It’s the placement of the bodies that has the attention of detectives because the killer(s) could have easily tossed them off the bridge and into the creek.
Detectives are looking for any surveillance video of the men that might help establish a time line of when they were last seen alive, Landis said.
“We are following up leads and making progress,” he said. “This is an unusual case so we are not ruling anything out.”
It is unclear how the men knew each other. Both men have extensive arrest records and are known to the Dayton Police Department, according to numerous police reports.
Sims was arrested multiple times in November on misdemeanor panhandling charges, but was known to police as someone who used drugs and associated with those who dealt in drugs, according to Dayton police reports.
Gay has also been arrested more than once for possessing drugs and/or instruments for drug use, according to police reports.
Sims and Gay are the eighth and ninth homicide victims in the county this year. You can track the investigation into their deaths and all others since 2008 by clicking here.
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