Dec. 10—A grand jury indicted a man on murder charges after a husband and wife were found bludgeoned in a Dayton home.
Cortney T. Lowe, 33, is facing six counts of murder and four counts of felonious assault, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
He is held on a $1 million bond in the Montgomery County Jail and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
Early Dec. 3, Dayton police responded to Wayne Avenue near Belmont High School after an RTA driver saw a man covered in blood.
The man, later identified as Lowe, was barefoot and walking around in a T-shirt and thermal underwear, according to the prosecutor’s office.
When officers found Lowe, he told them he was OK and that the blood belonged to Cathy Bell, according to Dayton Municipal Court records.
Additional officers responded to Bell’s home on Holly Avenue and found the 64-year-old woman and her husband, 67-year-old Danny Thomas Bell, dead.
“It was clear both suffered from blunt force trauma,” an affidavit read. “A sledgehammer was located in the bedroom where Ms. Bell was found covered in blood.”
Lowe had previously been trespassed from the address, according to municipal court documents. It is not clear whether Lowe knew the Bells.
Police interviewed Lowe at the safety building and then arrested him.