From the Feb 22, 2007 issue of the Toledo Blade:
1. - Shortly before 2 a.m., three Toledo police vice narcotics detectives on routine patrol in North Toledo spot two teenage males in the dense fog along the 1400 block of North Ontario Street. Believing they had at least a curfew violation and possibly drug activity under way, the detectives pull up alongside the youths. When the police identify themselves, 19-year-old Sherman Powell flees south toward Magnolia Street and 15-year-old Robert Jobe flees north toward Bush Street.
2. - Mr. Powell is apprehended a short time later, but young Jobe exchanges gunfire with pursuing Detective Keith Dressel. The detective fires at least six shots. One shot fired by the 15-year-old strikes Detective Dressel in the chest, perforating his heart. The fallen detective is treated at the scene and immediately rushed by paramedics to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, where he is pronounced dead at 2:36 a.m.
3. - Police searching for the suspect and evidence after the fog partly lifted discover bullets have struck homes at 1462 and 1464 North Ontario St. Inside the home of 1462 North Ontario, a man working at his computer in an upstairs bedroom reports he was nearly struck by a bullet that entered the house from the outside.
4 - The Jobe youth, aware police are looking for him and what has happened, calls his juvenile probation officer. Police locate the juvenile and take him into custody about 10:45 a.m. at 722 Bush St., an apartment house where Mr. Powell resides.
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