A Dayton police officer shot a man on Monday they allege had a gun.
Police alleged Delandrias Alan Webster, 36, fled from the passenger seat of a car they pulled over on Salem Avenue about 9 p.m. Monday. They also said Webster removed a gun from his pocket at some point while fleeing.
Webster, who is Black, was shot multiple times by a white Dayton police officer, Riley Brown.
At a press conference Tuesday, Police Chief Kamran Afzal acknowledged issues with race and policing. But he asked people in the Dayton community to let the investigation into this week’s incident play out.
"It's a tough environment to be out there,” Afzal said. “I will say that we need to have a little bit of trust in each other, and maybe put some trust back in law enforcement.
"Being a minority myself, I never really look at the individual's race, I Iook at the behavior that the individual has … I see behavior and then react to it," Afzal said.
Officer Brown is on administrative leave pending an outside investigation by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office into the shooting.
Webster is in stable condition.
Chris Welter is a reporter and corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms.
