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Dayton shooter Connor Betts held gun to friend’s head 5 months ago: report
New York Post ^ | 8-5-19 | Ben Feuerherd

Posted on 08/05/2019 9:27:07 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes

A former friend of the gunman who slaughtered nine people outside of a Dayton, Ohio, bar said he cut off their friendship when the mass shooter held a gun to his head about five months ago, a report said Monday.

Will El-Fakir, who went to the same high school as gunman Connor Betts, told the Dayton Daily News that Betts had been “getting a little violent with friends” and began to bring guns around them in recent months.

Betts then held a gun to El-Fakir’s head about five months ago for no reason, he told the newspaper. El-Fakir said he cut ties with Betts after the incident.

El-Fakir told the newspaper he recounted the incident to Dayton police officials Sunday afternoon.

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El-Fakir added that he’d witnessed strange behavior from Betts before the gun incident.

“There were times when he went to bars and just scoped the place out,” El-Fakir said.

“He’d say, ‘If I brought this-or-that through here, it would have done some damage.’”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; benfeuerherd; connorbetts; dayton; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; nra; ohio; secondamendment; willelfakir
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To: funfan

Another killer from the last year wrote in his manifesto that guns should be controlled. May have even said that he hoped his act would change things. Wasn’t the “call for gun bans” supposed to kick off civil war 2 in one of these nuts violent wet dreams?

And immediately the Left called to implenent his requested gun ban.


41 posted on 08/06/2019 1:59:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: zeestephen

Have to wonder what school administrators knew of the bullying that the Florida shooter endured. The girl who made the rounds with Hogg was allegedly one of those who bullied the shooter in school.


42 posted on 08/06/2019 2:01:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: meadsjn

Antifa also held a memorial for their terrorist member who died firebombing an ICE facility (with the intent of maiming and killing people in an explosion).


43 posted on 08/06/2019 2:05:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: funfan

New Zealand.


44 posted on 08/06/2019 2:37:26 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Reno89519

i had an increasingly violent and irrational cousin who no one ever, ever made reports on. My aunt was embarrassed and all hell would have broken loose if any one in my family had called a cop.
he got a gun. did not hurt anybody but alot of talk.
and I never even knew until it was over (he’s dead now)


45 posted on 08/06/2019 2:55:56 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: Tired of Taxes

46 posted on 08/06/2019 2:56:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Seen this little tidbit?

L


47 posted on 08/06/2019 3:01:09 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Looks bogus.


48 posted on 08/06/2019 3:03:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Just wondering. If it’s for real the Chan monkeys will find it.

L


49 posted on 08/06/2019 3:13:58 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Hey El-FAKIR.....you SHOULD have gone to the police with all this info MONTHS AGO!


50 posted on 08/06/2019 3:33:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Yaelle

yes


51 posted on 08/06/2019 4:06:00 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Lurker

Yeah.


52 posted on 08/06/2019 4:07:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Reno89519

The more I read about it, the more convincing concealed carry becomes.


53 posted on 08/06/2019 4:11:05 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Ann Archy
Hey El-FAKIR.....you SHOULD have gone to the police with all this info MONTHS AGO!

And what exactly are the cops supposed to do? Arrest Betts from bringing guns around his friends? (FYI: I always carry a gun around friends.) For speculating about the damage that could be done if someone started shooting in a crowded place? (I do that all the time -- Its call situation awareness.) The only crime is pointing a gun at someone's head -- for fun --- but without a witness, the cops are not going to make an arrest.

54 posted on 08/06/2019 4:30:47 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Reno89519

About 2% of this country are homosexual, yet their control over the culture, language, schools, media, business, and such is overwhelming.


55 posted on 08/06/2019 4:35:14 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Tired of Taxes

“See something, say nothing”.

Political correctness has made wusses of society.


56 posted on 08/06/2019 4:37:38 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Yaelle
Please let’s discuss nationally some way to put away people - in hopes of rehab and release - who show EVERY SIGN of becoming a mass shooter. Freedom is not freedom for people who can’t handle it.

Problem is that after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, that even if the law were changed, the mental health resources don't exist and aren't likely to exist, at least in our lifetimes. There is a severe shortage of psychiatrists (gov't "experts" underestimated the need for psychiatrists) and inpatient psychiatric hospital beds.

After they forced deinstitutionalization, the liberals then burned the bridge.

The closed/abandoned Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Newtown CT is a 2.8 mile drive from Sandy Hook Elementary School.

57 posted on 08/06/2019 5:11:02 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: bigdaddy45

The bigotry is informed and well-earned, and if you don’t agree, you don’t know enough about Islam.


58 posted on 08/06/2019 5:30:59 AM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Reno89519

If you point out that a FRIEND of a killer (one friend of several identified, who did absolutely ZERO wrong) is a person of color, shall we presume you are a racist because you noted it? Yes, I would say you are.


59 posted on 08/06/2019 5:40:05 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: thoughtomator; Reno89519

A kid that happens to have an arabic last name. Who could be Christian for all you know. This maniac shoots and kills 9 people in cold blood, and we start pointing out that “hey, ONE OF HIS FRIENDS HAS AN ARABIC LAST NAME??? Maybe he’s in on it!!!”.

Its insanity, and racist to the core. “The killer pointed a gun to his head and he didn’t do anything!!” What whats he supposed to do? Call the cops? What exactly would they do with no witnesses? I’ll tell you what they’d do. Nothing.

Sorry, I don’t throw around the “R” word because it is so overused it basically has no meaning at this point. But this thread shows a level of paranoia that is ridiculous.


60 posted on 08/06/2019 5:45:34 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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