https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/08/04/dayton-shooting-what-we-know-gunman/1916121001/
Dayton shooting: What we know about the gunman
Seventeen months ago, Moira Cofer Betts stood outside the Dublin Pub in Dayton with her son and daughter.
The three squeezed together, arm in arm, and smiled for a selfie. Betts then posted the photo to Facebook, something she did often. “I’m a very lucky mama,” she wrote in a separate post a month later.
On Sunday, both of Betts’ children were killed about a block from where they’d posed for that photo.
Her son, Connor, 24, was shot to death by police after killing nine people and injuring 27.
Her daughter, Megan, 22, was among the victims shot and killed by her brother.
Betts and her husband, Stephen, got the news within hours of the shooting. Police and FBI agents were at their home Sunday morning in the Dayton suburb of Bellbrook, searching for evidence that could help explain what happened.
“We don’t know the why, we don’t know the whats,” said Bellbrook Police Chief Doug Doherty. “But we do know that there’s a mom and dad down there that are really hurting.”
Connor and Megan drove together to Dayton’s Oregon District, an entertainment area with bars and restaurants, sometime Saturday night. Once there, they went their separate ways, police said.
The shooting started around 1 a.m. Megan was one of the first to die.
Connor did not have a serious criminal record, but some people who knew him said he’d been troubled in the past.
One classmate told The Enquirer Connor had been bullied in high school and responded by making a hit list. “He had a plan to shoot up the high school,” said Laura Wakeley, who attended Bellbrook High School with him.
Wakeley said Connor was kicked out of school after the incident but eventually was allowed to return.
Chris Baker, a former Bellbrook High School principal, was asked about the hit list appearing on a bathroom wall at the school. “I would not dispute that information,” Baker told the Dayton Daily News, declining to comment further.
Connor was a student at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, though he was not enrolled at the school for the summer.
According to his LinkedIn page, Connor’s work history included stints at Chipotle Mexican Grill and a gas station in Centerville, Ohio.
Dayton Shooter Reportedly Suspended From High School for Writing “Hit List” on Wall
slate ^ | 8/4/2019 | Daniel Politi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3769236/posts?page=1
“Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, wrote on Twitter late Saturday that “killing random civilians to spread a political message is terrorism.”
“F.B.I. classifies it as domestic terrorism, but ‘white terrorism’ is more precise,” Mr. Rosenstein said on Twitter. “Many of the killers are lone-wolf losers indoctrinated to hate through the internet, just like Islamic terrorists.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3769237/posts?page=1
Dayton Shooting: Gunman Kills 9 in Entertainment District
nytimes ^ | 8/4/2019 | timothy Williams
If he and his sister rode together, then they went their separate ways, where did he stash the weapon?
The trunk?