Good samaritans shot at, assaulted on highway

Where will you be when it happens to you? Will you have the means to defend yourself and your family?

The December 29, 2004 Dayton Daily News story begins like this:

"With two shots fired and a gun now at his head, a Medway man driving home from a mall Monday night fought for his life, wrestling a gun away from an assailant on Ohio 444, local law enforcement reported Tuesday.

Greene County Sheriff's deputies did not release the name of the 50-year-old man or his 46-year-old wife, who were assaulted in their truck near Ohio 844 as they headed home around 10 p.m. from the Mall at Fairfield Commons.

Sheriff's Maj. Eric Prindle told the Dayton paper the couple was driving home when they spotted a woman flagging them down as she stood in a traffic lane next to a car on Ohio 444.

Prindle told the newspaper the woman ran toward their vehicle in a panic and around to the passenger's door yelling, "He's going to shoot me."

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At that point, a man approached the couple's truck, telling the driver, "Don't move the truck or I'll kill you," Prindle told the DDN.

The story continues:

"He fires one round into the air and then he makes some more threats," Prindle said. "Then he fires the gun through the truck and it breaks out the passenger side window.

"After the second shot, this gunman puts the gun to the driver's head and says, 'I'm going to kill you,' and then, I guess, the fight is on. The driver gets the gun away from the gunman; the gunman runs toward the east and the motorist (the woman who flagged the couple down) drives off."

The newspaper goes on to say the couple immediately drove to the Riverside police station nearby and gave a report. According to the story, the police later responded to a dispute between a man and woman at the Best Inn motel at 5551 Springfield St., where they arrested Arrone, who matched the description given by the couple.

The DDN reports that the alleged assailant, Roger S. Arrone of Dayton, 24, was arrested later that night at a Riverside motel and placed in Greene County jail. The DDN reports Arrone was charged Tuesday with two counts of felonious assault.