Prosecutors say Jayme Lee Rogers now faces multiple felony counts after the February killing of Jaime Dick.
DAYTON, Ohio — A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted a Dayton man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend outside her home in February, a case that police say began with his own 911 call reporting that someone had been shot.
Jayme Lee Rogers, 34, was first charged in Dayton Municipal Court days after the shooting and later indicted on a wider set of felony counts, according to local court reporting and prosecutors. The case has drawn attention because investigators say Rogers admitted during the emergency call that he shot 33-year-old Jaime Dick, who was found in a running vehicle near her home. Dick’s death left two children without their mother and pushed the case quickly from an arrest to grand jury review.
Police were sent shortly after 2 a.m. on Feb. 10 to the 4700 block of Queens Avenue in Dayton after a caller told dispatchers, “Get here quick, someone is shot.” Investigators later identified the caller as Rogers. Court records described in local reports say he told dispatchers he had shot Dick three times and claimed she had been unfaithful. According to an affidavit cited by multiple outlets, Rogers also said Dick “got what she deserved.” When officers arrived, court documents say, Rogers came out of the residence and repeated that he shot her. Officers found Dick inside a vehicle that was still running. She had been hit by gunfire and was taken to a hospital, where she later died. Investigators reported finding shell casings in the street near the vehicle and on the sidewalk nearby, and said the passenger-side window had been struck by gunfire.
Early court filings first listed Rogers as facing murder, felonious assault and weapons offenses. At his municipal court arraignment, local court coverage said he faced two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, two counts of having weapons while under disability and one count of discharging a firearm on or near a prohibited premise. A judge set bond at $1 million cash or surety. Prosecutors later said a grand jury returned an indictment on two murder counts, one felonious assault count tied to a deadly weapon, one felonious assault count tied to serious physical harm, one discharge count and two weapons-under-disability counts. One of those disability counts was tied to a prior drug conviction and the other to a prior offense of violence, according to the prosecutor’s office. Police and reporters have not publicly described in detail what happened in the minutes before the shooting, and the full sequence inside and outside the home remains unclear from the public record now available.
The case has also centered on Dick’s life outside the courtroom record. Her obituary described her as a Dayton mother of two who worked as a manager at Wendy’s and was known to family as a devoted parent, daughter and sister. It said she is survived by her children, Braydyn and Cali Rogers, along with other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held Feb. 16 in West Alexandria. Prosecutors said the couple’s two children, ages 9 and 12, were inside the home when the shooting happened, a detail that sharpened attention on the violence described in the indictment. In a public statement released after the grand jury action, Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Math Heck Jr. said the shooting was “another senseless” act of gun violence that left two young children without their mother. That statement did not add new facts about the shooting itself, but it underscored how the case has been framed by local officials: as both a homicide prosecution and a family loss with lasting effects beyond the criminal file.
Procedurally, the case moved fast. Rogers was booked into the Montgomery County Jail after officers took him into custody at the scene. A preliminary hearing in municipal court had been scheduled for Feb. 20, but the grand jury indictment that day shifted the matter into common pleas court, where felony cases move toward arraignment, motions and, if there is no plea agreement, trial. WKEF reported Rogers was set to be arraigned on Feb. 24 after the indictment. Public reporting available so far does not show a trial date, a plea, or any ruling on pretrial motions beyond the bond decision reported earlier in municipal court. It also remains unclear from the public record whether prosecutors will pursue the case primarily through witness testimony, forensic evidence from the scene, statements from the 911 call, or some combination of all three. What is clear is that the indictment means the case has advanced beyond the initial arrest stage and into formal felony prosecution.
Neighbors were not quoted at length in the local reports that followed, so much of the public picture has come from police paperwork, courtroom updates and Dick’s obituary rather than from on-the-record witness accounts. Even so, the outline of the scene was stark: a residential block in Dayton, a vehicle left running in front of a home, and officers arriving to find a woman gravely wounded while the man accused in the shooting was still nearby. The short statements attributed to Rogers in court papers became the most repeated details in early coverage because they appeared to describe motive and admission in the same breath. For Dick’s relatives and friends, however, the public record has competed with a different portrait, one grounded not in a charging document but in memories of routine life: Sundays with her son, at-home spa days with her daughter, time at the dog park, and a woman whose family said she gave steady love to the people around her.
As of March 16, Rogers remained the defendant in an active homicide case stemming from Dick’s Feb. 10 death, with the indictment marking the latest major public step and future court hearings expected to shape what evidence is aired next.