Dayton Shooting: Suspected shooter ID’d; 9 victims killed, 27 injured in Oregon District

Dayton Daily News ^ | 04 August 2019 | Breaking News Staff

[E. Pluribus Unum]

DAYTON — A shooting with multiple fatalities and several people wounded has occurred near Ned Peppers Bar on East Fifth Street in the city of Dayton’s Oregon District. Here’s the latest:

UPDATE @ 11:30 a.m.: Connor Betts, 24, of Bellbrook has been identified as the suspected shooter in the Oregon District, government sources have confirmed to this news outlet.

Several law enforcement officers are conducting an investigation at a home Creekview Place, connected to the mass shooting. Officials only said the investigation is connected to the shooting and other details could not be released.

We’ll continue to update this story as we learn more.

UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m.: The number of injured in Sunday morning’s shooting in the Oregon District has increased to 27, according to Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley.

MORE: Hotlines, meeting site set for families of victimsTen people are dead, nine of whom are victims and one shooter. The shooter, who has only been identified as a man, was neutralized within a minute of the first shots being fired, Whaley said during a 10 a.m. news conference.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I’m confused. The article says the gunman was neutralized within a minute of the shooting starting, yet 9 dead, 27 wounded meaning 30 rounds plus a reload not counting shots that didn’t hit anyone and he’s down in a minute?

Something doesn’t compute.

[McGavin999]

These are all young people, we need to look at what is creating this outcome.

[Steve_Seattle]

Within minutes, we will be told that Connor Betts is a :

white-supremacist
neo-Nazi
Muslim
Antifa
Trump supporter
registered Democrat
registered Republican
Evangelical Christian
CIA-controlled zombie

But if he's like most of these shooters, he'll be a psycho with a jumbled and incoherent ideology.

[myerson]

Shoot into group of people standing close together and 1 bullet can hit several of them.

[babble-on]

In one photo he’s wearing a vest that says “Against The Gods” on it in sort of gothic script. Does anyone know what that refers to? Otherwise just looks like a basic white kid. He’s employed while in community college. No manifesto that I’ve seen. Good shot by law enforcement saved many lives.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Something doesn't compute."

I wouldn't read anything into it. Probably just a slight imprecision, i.e., "within a minute" means "quickly" or "within a few minutes."

[reformedliberal]

‘Against the Gods’ is a series of Manga novels.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&ei=kwBHXaLfKrSO9PwPmZ-FoAk&q=Against+the+Gods&oq=Against+the+Gods&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.1322021.1328844..1329420...0.0..1.209.4107.50j4j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0i67.xNHe9PfXLoU&ved=0ahUKEwji9LbEyunjAhU0B50JHZlPAZQQ4dUDCAo&uact=5

[gundog]

No future. Less than 12 years left.

[_Jim]

Another “incel”?

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts/

[Steve_Seattle]

Kind of nerdy, but he looks like he had some friends, and he was employed. Why do you suspect incel?

[McGavin999]

I think it has to do with the devaluation of boys.

[Steve_Seattle]

A synopsis of "Against the Gods": "Hunted for possessing a heaven-defying object, Yun Che is a young man in both that life and the next. Throwing himself off a cliff to spite his pursuers, Yun Che is reincarnated as Xiao Che, a recently poisoned teen in another realm. Just as hated in this life as the previous one, Che must overcome his own hostile clan, his own inability to cultivate, and his own frosty fiancée."

Maybe Betts was a nerd who took this stuff too seriously, and tried to live it out in the real world. Maybe he had a persecution complex, or was picked-on in school, and tried to become somebody through acting out a murderous fantasy.

[Cold Heart]

OHIO

[gundog]

Certainly a factor. The Left and the MSM have created a doom -and-gloom scenario much at odds with the utopia they promise.

[dfwgator]

Some people are just bad seed.

[freeandfreezing]

Apparently the shooter fired into a crowd of people in front of, and perhaps in a bar.

This article on Heavy.com has a lot more information on the shooter.

It is time for some serious research into why young men are engaging in such atrocities.

[Drew68]

Otherwise just looks like a basic white kid.

Yeah, he doesn't come across as a total loser incel who's never kissed a girl like yesterday's shooter.

[EEGator]

Some Japanese Manga. That, or a book on risk by Peter Bernstein. I’m thinking the former...

[BenLurkin]

Within minutes from the first call, I bet.

“When seconds count....”