DAYTON, Ohio — A federal grand jury has indicted a 32-year-old Dayton man on a charge of illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, after prosecutors say he fired multiple shots in downtown Dayton on October 1, fled from police at high speed through the city's Oregon District, struck another car and threw a handgun from his truck in a college parking lot before officers stopped him.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of Ohio

The defendant, Kyle Hissong, 32, of Dayton, was indicted for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced. WKEF in Dayton reported the same indictment, citing the U.S. Attorney's Office, and Dayton Daily News reporting carried by local outlets described the new federal charge against a man previously accused over the October 1 gunfire and pursuit.

Source: WKEF, Dayton

What prosecutors say happened on October 1

According to the charging documents cited by the Justice Department, Dayton police officers responded on October 1 to a shots-fired call near West Grand Avenue and Rossdale Drive in Dayton. Surveillance footage and witness statements led officers to investigate Hissong, the department said.

A short time later, a marked Dayton police car attempted to stop Hissong, who was driving a truck. Prosecutors allege he fled at a high rate of speed, running a red light at the intersection of Wayne Avenue and Fifth Street and driving through the Oregon District — Dayton's best-known historic entertainment district — at excessive speeds.

He then allegedly ran a second red light, at Fifth Street and Patterson Boulevard, striking another car in the process, according to the charging documents. No information about injuries to the other driver was given in the federal announcement.

Hissong continued to the parking lot of Sinclair Community College, the downtown Dayton college, where he allegedly tossed a handgun from his truck before speeding away, prosecutors say. Officers ultimately immobilized Hissong's truck and recovered the Glock handgun that had been thrown from it.

The charge and who brought it

Federal law bars people with felony convictions from possessing firearms, and possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors say Hissong has two prior felony convictions for drug and gun crimes.

The charges were announced by Dominick S. Gerace II, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Jorge Rosendo, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); and Dayton Police Chief Eric Henderson. Assistant United States Attorney Kelly K. Rossi and Deputy Criminal Chief Brent G. Tabacchi are representing the United States in the case, the department said.

Why this matters and what happens next

The case moves a street-level shooting and pursuit out of local court and into the federal system, where felon-in-possession cases are a long-standing enforcement priority because they target people already convicted of felonies who are accused of carrying guns again. For Dayton residents, the October 1 sequence — gunfire near a residential street, a chase through the Oregon District's bar and restaurant blocks, a crash at a major downtown intersection and a gun thrown in a college parking lot — is the kind of incident that has driven repeated local debate about pursuits and gun violence.

What happens next: the case will proceed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where Hissong will answer the indictment and a schedule for further hearings and any trial will be set. The Justice Department announcement did not give a date for his next court appearance. If convicted on the felon-in-possession count, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison, with the actual sentence to be decided by a judge under federal law.