Jalesseazay Posey, 22, a male who was Black/African American, was shot in the early morning hours of September 25, 2025, in the 1400 block of Delta Road in Springfield, Ohio, near the Southern Village Shopping Center. Responding officers arrived around 3:10 a.m. and found Jalesseazay Posey, 22, with multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Mercy Health – Springfield, where Jalesseazay Posey, 22, male, was pronounced dead soon after.
In the minutes after the shooting, frantic 911 calls
described a chaotic scene. One caller said ten shots shattered the night; another begged dispatchers to hurry as people screamed in the background. A man who identified himself as the shooter told dispatchers he was hiding in bushes after what he called a gunfight, claiming he had fired in self-defense while making a DoorDash delivery. He said the other man had a gun first and had ordered him to “get in the car,” insisting he fired only because he feared being shot. Despite that account, the confusion on the ground was palpable: callers reported chest wounds and a rush of blood while family members cried out nearby.
Investigators began piecing the night together from witness statements and surveillance video. According to a witness who was with Jalesseazay Posey, 22, male, the meeting that preceded the gunfire was to buy “some bud,” not a robbery, and he said he did not need protection. Surveillance footage summarized in court records later described that the shooter fired first from an estimated 80 to 85 feet away while Jalesseazay Posey, 22, male, had his hands down at his sides. The handgun recovered from the suspect was a 9mm Beretta Nano; records showed it had been reported stolen years earlier in Trotwood, though police noted there was no clear evidence the suspect knew it was stolen.
Within days, Springfield police arrested a 25-year-old local man, Charles Tanturri II. On October 7, 2025, a Clark County grand jury indicted him on two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, and two counts of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation. Charles Tanturri II was booked into the Clark County Jail and held on a $500,000 bond. Although he initially claimed self-defense, the charging documents and surveillance summary cast doubt on that narrative, and the case remains active as prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare to test those competing stories in court.
As the legal process moved forward, family and friends gathered to honor Jalesseazay Posey, 22, male, at services in Springfield in early October, marking the loss of a young life cut short. Police asked anyone with information about the events of that night to come forward, seeking to fill in the remaining gaps about what led to the sudden eruption of violence on Delta Road and the death of Jalesseazay Posey, 22, male.
