The indictments stem from the June 16 shooting outside Bar II in Middletown where four people were shot, including 36-year-old Middletown man Jesse Jones, who was killed. It stemmed from a fight in the parking lot after the bar closed, according to police.
Jerome Collier, 51, of Hamilton was already facing a murder charge and single counts of felonious assault and having weapons under disability. A Butler County grand jury on Friday indicted Collier on seven charges in all, adding three more counts of felonious assault and a second count of having a weapon under disability under different sections of the Ohio criminal code.
Collier was named as a victim in the indictment.
The murder and felonious assault charges are enhanced with both a gun specification and a repeat violent offender specification. Both specification charges would add additional years to the underlying crimes if convicted.
Collier was arraigned on Monday, June 23, and his bond was set at $1 million. He is in the Butler County Jail. G
Dy’Shonna Goins, 28, of Dayton faced three counts of felonious assault, and now has been indicted by the grand jury on those counts as well as two additional felonious assault counts. Four of the charges Goins faces are also enhanced with both an underlying gun specification charge.
Goins’ bond is set at $150,000 and she is at the Middletown Jail.
On June 16, police responded to reports of shots fired at Bar II’s parking lot, 1200 Elliott Drive, at around 2:40 a.m. Four people were shot as an apparent result of a fight, said Middletown Division of Police Chief Earl Nelson, but the motivation as to why the fight started is not clear.
“The stories are different as to why the fight started,” he said. “We talked to the owner of the bar, asking if anything had happened inside. He said, ‘No.’”
