Prosecutors say two children were inside a nearby home when the shooting happened on Queens Avenue.
DAYTON, Ohio — A Dayton man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend near her home after a 2 a.m. 911 call now faces murder, assault and weapons charges in a case that police and prosecutors say began with his own admission to dispatchers and officers.
Jayme Rogers, 34, was first charged in Dayton Municipal Court and later indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury in the Feb. 10 killing of 33-year-old Jaime Dick. Investigators say Rogers told a dispatcher he had shot Dick three times and blamed suspected infidelity. The case has drawn added attention because authorities say Dick was found inside a running vehicle on a residential street and because prosecutors later said the couple’s two children, ages 9 and 12, were inside the home when the gunfire erupted.
Police were sent to the 4700 block of Queens Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. on Feb. 10 after Montgomery County Regional Dispatch received a 911 call. In that call, according to court records and local reports, the caller asked for help immediately and said someone had been shot. Investigators later identified the caller as Rogers. Officers arrived to find Dick suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside a running vehicle parked outside a home. Dayton police Lt. Eric Sheldon said she was taken to a local hospital, where she later died. Court records say Rogers came out to meet officers when they arrived and repeated that he had shot her. Investigators also reported finding shell casings in the street and on a sidewalk near the vehicle, and they said the passenger-side window had been struck by gunfire.
Authorities have laid out a case built largely on statements they say Rogers made before and after police arrived. An affidavit and statement of facts filed in the municipal case say Rogers told dispatchers he shot Dick three times and said she had been unfaithful. Local reports based on the same records said he also told the dispatcher that Dick “got what she deserved” and that he was armed. Police have not publicly described any evidence that supports the accusation of infidelity, and none had been outlined in the charging details made public in the first weeks of the case. What is clear from those records is that investigators treated the shooting as a domestic violence homicide from the start. Sheldon said the victim and suspect had a domestic relationship, and the Dayton Police Department’s Homicide Unit took over the investigation soon after officers secured the scene.
Dick’s death quickly moved beyond a crime scene and into public mourning. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified her on Feb. 11. Her obituary described her as a mother of two, a daughter, sister and manager at Wendy’s who loved spending time with her children, taking her dog to the park and playing “The Sims.” It named her children as Braydyn and Cali Rogers and said she was born in Dayton on Aug. 21, 1992. Funeral services were held Feb. 16 in West Alexandria. The obituary portrayed a routine family life cut short, describing Sundays with her son, at-home spa days with her daughter and the kind of ordinary moments that often become central in homicide cases because they show who the victim was outside police paperwork. In this case, those details stood in sharp contrast to the brief and violent allegations in the court file.
The procedural path of the case has moved in stages. Rogers was initially charged with two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, two counts of having weapons while under disability and one count of discharging a firearm on or near a prohibited premise. During his arraignment in Dayton Municipal Court, a judge set bond at $1 million cash or surety and scheduled a preliminary hearing for Feb. 20 at 3:30 p.m. By that date, the case had advanced. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office announced that a grand jury had indicted Rogers on two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault and three weapons charges. Prosecutors also said on Feb. 20 that Dick was Rogers’ fiancée, a term that sharpened the picture of the relationship at the center of the case. Rogers remained jailed in Montgomery County on the $1 million bond and was expected back in court the following week on the indicted charges.
One of the most consequential new details to emerge after the initial arrest was the presence of children nearby. Prosecutors said the couple’s two children, ages 9 and 12, were inside the home when the shooting occurred. Authorities have not publicly said whether the children saw the gunfire or heard the full exchange that led up to it, and they have not released additional details about who was caring for them after Dick’s death. But that fact altered the public understanding of the case. It placed the killing not only on a residential block in the early morning hours, but within immediate reach of children old enough to understand that something terrible had happened. Investigators also have not publicly described whether the shooting occurred after an argument inside the home, outside near the car, or across both locations. Those unanswered questions remain important because they go to intent, sequence and what witnesses may be able to say later in court.
The weapons charges also point to issues that extend beyond the shooting itself. Ohio law bars certain people from possessing firearms under specified circumstances, and prosecutors charged Rogers with having weapons while under disability in the municipal case before the grand jury later returned three weapons counts. Public reports available in the first weeks after the shooting did not spell out the precise disability alleged in court, and the prosecutor’s office did not publicly detail it in the brief announcement of the indictment. That means a fuller account of the government’s case likely will come through future filings, hearings and any eventual trial testimony. The same is true of forensic work. Police said Dick was shot multiple times and that officers found shell casings near the vehicle, but they had not publicly released ballistics findings, autopsy details beyond the fatal injuries, or a more exact reconstruction of where Rogers and Dick were positioned when the shots were fired.
The setting of the case has shaped the way it has been understood in Dayton. Queens Avenue is part of a residential area where overnight quiet is the norm, making a shooting at 2 a.m. especially jarring for neighbors and first responders. Police have not publicly described any earlier calls to that address tied to the couple, and no protective order or prior domestic case had been highlighted in the public reporting reviewed in the early weeks after the killing. That absence does not rule out earlier conflict, but it means the public account of the relationship remains narrow and largely defined by the final minutes described in the charging documents. For homicide prosecutors, those early records can be enough to establish probable cause. For the public, they often leave a longer list of unknowns: how the confrontation began, whether Dick tried to leave, whether anyone else heard the exchange, and how long she remained in the vehicle before help arrived.
For now, the case stands at the charging stage, where allegations are formally stated but not yet tested at trial. Prosecutors must now move the case through arraignment on the indictment, evidence exchange and pretrial hearings. Defense lawyers will have opportunities to challenge the statements attributed to Rogers, the handling of the scene and any forensic conclusions offered by police. The state, meanwhile, appears likely to center its case on the 911 call, officers’ testimony about what Rogers said at the scene, physical evidence collected around the vehicle and medical findings about Dick’s wounds. Dick’s family has not been quoted at length in the court record, but her obituary and funeral arrangements offered a portrait of a woman whose life revolved around her children and relatives. Rogers remains in jail, and the next court milestone is expected to come through his appearance in common pleas court following the indictment.