FAIRBORN, Ohio ( WCMH ) – A suspect from a decade-old homicide case in Columbus was arrested Wednesday night after a shootout in Greene County east of Dayton.
Breyon Bryant, wanted in the 2013 strangulation death of Daviena Clay, was arrested in Fairborn, with no injuries reported from the exchange of gunfire. Police were there executing a warrant at an apartment on West Funderburg Road, where Bryant lived with another woman.
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The woman was being interviewed for an unrelated case when she told Fairborn officers that in December, Columbus police had collected a sample of Bryant’s DNA as part of the investigation into Clay’s death and that Bryant had confessed to her he had strangled Clay.
Columbus police were contacted by Fairborn police, who, upon arrival, said they were shot at several times by Bryant. One officer returned fire before Bryant surrendered. Bryant was arrested on aggravated assault charges and taken to the Greene County Jail.