I’m sick of it! He wasn’t even trying to stay out of trouble (no real problem there normally) and now another mall is trashed because of thugs like these.
I wouldn’t count on it just yet. While it may be one of the older malls still standing, it does have a couple of things going for it:
1) Unlike the (defunct) Salem Mall, the Dayton Mall still is surrounded by relatively good neighborhoods, somewhat south of Dayton itself. For what I know, the main contingents of Dayton-area gibsmedats come from the west, north, and some parts of the east.
2) The incident puts more fear into criminals than it does customers. Not only did the main criminal lose everything from it, so might the other two if felony murder doctrine applies.
If the Dayton Mall declines by any means, it will likely be for not finding a replacement for the Sears anchor (or some other financial cause), not out of crime.