Anthony Belton was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the murder of store clerk Matthew Dugan
According to court documents Anthony Belton would rob a store. When Matthew Dugan handed over money and phone cards to Belton he would be fatally shot in the head
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¶ 7} On August 13, 2008, 34-year-old Matthew Dugan was working the
night shift at a BP carryout and service station located at the intersection of Secor
and Dorr Streets in Toledo. Four store security cameras were operational during
Dugan’s shift
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{¶ 8} Security recordings show a man entering the carryout at 6:53 a.m.2
The man, who was wearing a dark hooded jacket and appeared to be African-
American, left the store when another customer entered. At 6:55 a.m., the man
reentered the store, selected two bottled drinks from the cooler, and brought them
to the checkout counter. At that point, another customer entered the store, and the
man left again. Dugan helped the other customer, then returned the bottled drinks
to the cooler.
{¶ 9} At 7:00 a.m., the man entered the store a third time. He again selected
two drinks and walked to the counter. Dugan began to ring up the sale, then turned
around to get something from the wall behind the counter. When Dugan turned
back around, the man was pointing a handgun at him.
{¶ 10} The recording shows Dugan leap back, raising his hands. Dugan
opened the register, removed bills from the drawer, and gave them to the man. Then
Dugan retrieved some items from the wall behind the counter for the man. The
man gestured toward something else behind Dugan, and Dugan turned around. The
man then leaned forward, raised the gun, and fired at the back of Dugan’s head.
Dugan fell to the floor, and the shooter left the store.
{¶ 11} Recordings indicate that several customers entered and left the
carryout after Dugan was shot, apparently without noticing his body behind the
counter. Customer Tiffany Greenlee testified that she intended to purchase coffee
and a muffin from the carryout that morning, but she could not find an employee to
ring up her sale. Greenlee set her items on the counter and left. On her way out,
Greenlee looked in the store window and saw a man on the floor behind the counter,
lying in a pool of blood. Greenlee called 9-1-1 at 7:40 a.m.
{¶ 12} Police quickly responded and secured the scene. Police identified
the victim as Dugan. The owner of the carryout, Samuel Baiz, informed police that
$600 and several prepaid phone cards were missing from the store.
{¶ 13} Detective William Goetz recovered a spent 9 mm shell casing near
the cash register and a spent projectile two to three feet from Dugan’s body. Police
also photographed and collected paper money and coins that were lying on the
checkout counter, along with two perspiring drink bottles, a muffin, and a bottled
cappuccino. A printout from the cash register showed that the last transaction that
morning was at 7:00 a.m.
{¶ 14} Detective Goetz reviewed the store’s security recordings, and
Detective Jeffrey Clark coordinated a canvass of the area. Clark testified that
during the canvass, an employee at a nearby business gave him the name “Anthony
Beltran” as a possible suspect.
{¶ 15} Clark returned to police headquarters, where he ran the name
“Anthony Beltran” through a database. According to Clark, his search generated
11 names, including two African-American males. One of the two was Anthony
Belton, whose last known address was 934 Cuthbert.
{¶ 16} Clark mentioned Belton’s name to Detective Jason Lenhardt.
Lenhardt told Clark that he knew Belton and had last seen him around 9:00 p.m. on
August 12, 2008. He also informed Clark that Belton had recently moved to 1018
Ranch, which was located one-half mile from the BP. At the plea hearing, Lenhardt
testified that on August 12, Belton had a Mohawk and was wearing a black hooded
sweatshirt, gray cargo pants, and black sneakers (which matched the clothing worn
by the perpetrator in the surveillance video).
{¶ 17} Clark obtained a search warrant for 1018 Ranch and executed the
search with Lenhardt, Goetz, and other officers on the evening of August 13. Police
found three men at the location: Anthony Belton, Dymon Bolton, and Christopher Wilson.
Belton and Bolton were inside a 1997 Buick that was parked in front of the house.
Lenhardt noted that Belton was still wearing gray cargo pants and black sneakers,
but he was wearing a black t-shirt instead of the sweatshirt and his Mohawk had
been shaved.
{¶ 18} Detective Jerry Schriefer collected fingerprints from the Buick, and
at Belton’s request, Detective Lenhardt retrieved two pairs of new sneakers (and
corresponding receipts) from the car. Lenhardt also seized two black hooded
sweatshirts that were on top of a car parked in the driveway of 1018 Ranch.
{¶ 19} Officers took Belton, Bolton, and Wilson into custody and took them
to headquarter
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2016/2016-Ohio-1581.pdf
