Robert Boone, a 37-year-old Black/African American man, was shot in the early morning hours of May 31, 2025, in west Toledo and later died at a nearby hospital. Police were called a little after 2 a.m. to Phillips Avenue near the Polish Ostrich bar, where they found Boone suffering from at least one gunshot wound; he was taken to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Officers quickly focused on a suspect and, by around 5 a.m., arrested 29-year-old Amod Reshawn Dawson Jr. at a residence in the 400 block of Southcrest Street. Initial charges included murder and felonious assault, and booking records indicate he was taken into custody by the Toledo Police Department that morning.
In the days that followed, the case moved to the grand jury. On June 10, 2025, a Lucas County grand jury indicted Dawson on two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault, each with firearm specifications, along with a count of tampering with evidence. Local reporting at the time underscored that the shooting occurred outside the bar on Phillips Avenue and that Dawson remained jailed as proceedings advanced.
Boone’s death on May 31 is memorialized among Toledo’s 2025 homicide victims, marking a violent end to a late-spring night that began at a neighborhood bar and ended with a swift arrest and a case built for trial. Authorities continued gathering details in the aftermath, and community notices remembered Boone by name and date.
