Waste collection crew finds 59-year-old man’s body in alley

Dayton Police launched a homicide investigation after sanitation workers found a body.

Officers responded to the 300 block of Smith Street around 8:45 a.m. after someone called 911 and said a waste collection crew found a body in an alley.

“One of our waste collection crews found a dead body,” a woman with the City of Dayton Waste Collection told a dispatcher in a 911 call.

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In the call, she tells a dispatcher that the man has a gray shirt with a thermal shirt underneath, jeans, and one shoe on…

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