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Dayton Police Arrest Man For Criminal Homicide

By Jason Law
Created Jul 24 2008 - 3:47pm

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dddddddddddddd [0]Was it from a punch to the head?

Or a medical condition?

Dayton police have worked all day to answer those questions.

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What exactly killed 46-year-old Carlos McCuiston.

William aa [0]Thomas Minton of Evensville has been arrested for criminal homicide.

Police say early Thursday morning, the two men got into an altercation that ended with McCuiston dead.

"There was a drunken brawl. My brother lost his life because of some street punk. So hopefully we get justice by the law or by the street," says Allen Ray Smith.

aa [0]The news of McCuiston's death disturbs neighbors in his apartment complex off of Memorial Street.

According to family, he was a frail and sickly man. He was drinking heavily they say, when he was struck.

"I ran down there and he said the S.O.B. is dead. When I walked into the house there was blood everywhere," says Smith

"He had a heart condition," adds Brock Dunaway, a family friend. "He only weighed a hundred pounds. He couldn't hurt a fly if he tried too. And to be murdered like that..."

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa [0]Investigators say McCuiston had an extremely poor health history. He was only 46, yet he had a pace maker and had recently made an extended stay in a hospital.

Chief Chris Sneed is waiting for an autopsy to determine if it was a blow to the head, or something else, that killed McCuiston.


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