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UPDATE: Explosions Terrify Kelly Avenue Neighborhood

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UPDATE:  DAYTON-- The Dayton Bomb Squad responded to a home on Kelly Avenue Tuesday morning, after a loud explosion was heard by neighbors.
  
"I thought someone was shooting!" Anita Miles said. Around 4 a.m.  Miles  heard  2 loud explosions coming from right  outside her apartment in the 100 block of  Kelley Avenue. "I was crying, It was traumatizing."
She said.  
   
Terrified, Miles stayed awake for 3 hours,  until daylight, and then went to get  her cell  phone so she could call 911. 

" I thought they were gunshots, but  someone bombed my neighbors house." She told the 911 dispatcher.
  
"I was scared. I  tried to  look  out my window, to see if  I could see  anybody.  I didn't see anybody." She said.
     
The explosion  shattered  her neighbors windows, and  blew a wooden  fence to bits.
           
Police came out and  didn't find anybody home inside the targeted apartment, but they did  find a rifle and 2 bags of marijuana.  

Miles  thinks  someone  was mad at her neighbor, and set  off a commercial firecracker  in front of his home.
 
"They  left it  there to harm whoever was inside." She said.
 
The Dayton Bomb Squad  came to the scene  and are still investigating  exactly what kind of explosion was used.  

"This is not something that is common. That is why we are going to make sure we figure out who did this."  Dayton Police  Lt. Eric Henderson said.  
 
Police said  whoever  planted the explosion, will be facing felony arson charges.
 
The man who lives in the apartment, who has not been identified,  may be facing some charges as well for the weed and the gun found in his home.     



Earlier coverage: 

DAYTON -- Kelly Avenue residents reported what sounded like two bombs or explosions of some kind about 4 a.m. Tuesday.

One witness we spoke to said they didn't go outside after the explosion until it got light because she was terrified.

A fence was damaged and a bedroom window of an apartment was shattered. Other debris from the blast also was scattered around.

There are no reports of injuries and some neighbors say it appears to have been some kind of professional or large-scale fireworks. A caller to 911 says the explosion made a "flash of light."

We asked police and they tell us it's too early to say what caused it.

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