Chillicothegazette.com
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A former Bainbridge resident identified as having allegedly stolen and then crashed a fire truck Friday has died.
Monday morning, the Ross County Sheriff’s Office identified Brentley S. Montgomery, 19, as the suspect in the incident involving the Harrison Township fire truck. By Monday evening, the Ohio Highway Patrol confirmed that Montgomery had died.
Montgomery had been at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, where hospital officials had said he was in surgery Monday morning. Patty Dennewitz, of Bainbridge, said she has known Montgomery since he was in third grade at Paint Valley. She was at Wexner during the weekend with her husband praying for Montgomery and had been told he was brain dead by Sunday evening and that there were plans to donate his organs. That organ donation plan could help explain the discrepancy between the fact that his obituary indicates he died at the hospital Saturday and that he was involved in surgery Monday morning.
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