A 24-year-old Dayton man is charged with various felonies after Urbana police say he fired rounds into an inhabited residence on Hagenbuch Street late Sunday night. No injuries were recorded, but Re’Quan Jemar Roberts is now facing five counts of felonious assault and one count of improperly discharging a firearm into a dwelling, both second-degree felonies under Ohio law.
According to the Springfield News-Sun, Urbana police were dispatched to the 700 block of Hagenbuch Street soon after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, when they discovered rounds had been fired into a residential home. According to the same source, investigators initially stated that no injuries had been reported at the scene and that no arrests had been made. According to Peak of Ohio, Roberts lives in Dayton, which is more than 25 miles away from the shooting scene.
Roberts did not surrender on the scene. Instead, the report states that he handed himself in at the Clark County Jail before being brought to the Urbana Police Department and then incarcerated at the Tri-County Regional Jail in Mechanicsburg.
The Tri-County Regional Jail is a cooperative facility that serves Champaign, Madison, and Union counties, according to the Union County administration. Champaign County courts also rely on community supervision methods, such as the West Central Community Correctional Facility, to control the regional jail population, according to the Champaign County Common Pleas Court.
Roberts was arraigned via video in Champaign County Municipal Court on Monday, where he was appointed defence counsel, handed multiple mandatory no-contact orders, and given a $100,000 cash or surety bond with no 10% option, according to Peak of Ohio. His preliminary hearing is set on Friday, August 21.
Roberts faces five felonious assault offences under Ohio Revised Code § 2903.11, each with a maximum sentence of 2 to 8 years in prison and up to $15,000 in fines under the state’s Reagan Tokes sentencing framework, as per Ohio law. The accusation of wrongful discharge under Ohio Revised Code § 2923.161 is a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 8 years in prison and fines of up to $15,000. If Roberts is convicted of all charges, he might face significant cumulative prison time.
Urbana Police Chief Josh Jacobs stated that the shooting was an isolated event and did not constitute a continuing public threat. Police have not provided any other details about the case at this time, and it is unclear what connection, if any, Roberts had to the Hagenbuch Street property or its residents, or what evidence led police to identify him before he turned himself in.
Chief Jacobs, a 25-year department veteran and Urbana High School alumni, was appointed to the top position in April, according to the Springfield News-Sun’s Facebook page. According to the City of Urbana, his division has an authorised force of 23 officers and serves about 11,793 persons throughout 7.77 square miles.
The Hagenbuch Street shooting occurred months after Urbana police handled another major violent incident, an officer-involved shooting on West Church Street in May, which was investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. That case was unrelated to Sunday’s shooting, but it is the department’s second high-profile violent crime occurrence this year.
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