Mom of 4-Year-Old Shot Dead in Back Seat of Car By Suspect Trying to Kill Person in Front Seat

Ohio police said they used technology to track a suspect who shot and killed a woman sitting with her 4-year-old daughter in the back seat of a car on Saturday.

Dayton Police said 26-year-old Jerma Lyle was not the intended target when a 23-year-old gunman who has not been named opened fire at the car in which she was riding on US 35, WDTN reported. The suspect was shooting at a passenger in the car’s front seat but hit Lyle instead.

The suspect was a passenger in another car that followed the vehicle Lyle was in from the Dayton airport before the gunman opened fire. He was allegedly in some kind of “ongoing dispute” with the front passenger seat occupant in Lyle’s vehicle and thought shooting at a car from another car was the way to solve it.

Police said license plate cameras helped track the suspect vehicle along with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ ballistics database.

Police said they recovered both the car the suspect was in and the alleged murder weapon. Formal charges will be filed late this week.

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