DAYTON, Ohio ( WDTN ) — Friends and family of the victim of Monday night’s deadly shooting are pouring out support on social media.
Authorities found the victim, who they have not officially identified, deceased outside of Napoleon’s Reloaded on Germantown Pike. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.
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Members of the community found out about the incident through phone calls from the immediate family while others from a flood of social media who identified him as Darnell Pate.
2 NEWS spoke with people close to the victim including a former high school classmate Korey Faulks.
“I got a phone call from a friend, told me that Darnell had been shot while working at the nightclub in Jefferson Township,” said Faulks.
He says Pate was a security guard and former police officer, and described him as patient, courageous and easygoing. Faulk says he was a proud and passionate father to his four children.
“It takes a lot of courage for someone to want to do that job that he did,” said Faulks.