Man sentenced for deadly machete attack in Dayton park

The man who killed a New Lebanon man in Triangle Park has been sentenced.

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Daniel B. Anderson, 25, was sentenced by a Montgomery County judge to 15 years to life in prison.

Earlier this month, Anderson was convicted of five counts of murder and four counts of felonious assault.

As previously reported by News Center 7 in July 2022, police and medics were called to Ridge Avenue near Triangle Park just before midnight for reports of a person on the ground with blood near She.

Police were dispatched to the scene, believing the man may have been hit by a car during an accident.

When they arrived at the scene, they discovered that it was a murder and not an accident.

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Daniel Thomas, 59, of New Lebanon, was identified as the man killed, according to the Montgomery County Coroner's Office.

An initial police investigation found that Thomas suffered “very serious trauma to the head and body” after being attacked with a machete and then hit by a car, Johns said.

Police said Anderson and Thomas knew each other and the attack was the result of a fight that escalated.

Anderson was arrested at the scene.