9 dead, 16 injured in shooting in Dayton, Ohio
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9 dead, 16 injured in shooting in Dayton, Ohio
Nine people were killed and at least 16 people were injured after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning, according to the Dayton Police Department. The alleged shooter was killed by responding police.
It happened in the city's Oregon District in downtown Dayton. A witness said they heard 20 to 30 shots around 1 a.m., according to WDTN.
Dayton Police Lt. Col. Matt Carper said investigators are looking at the possibility that other people were involved, but initial indications were that only one person was responsible for the shooting.
The shooter has not been identified. Carper said it was not immediately clear what the motive was.
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Carper said that a "long gun" was used in the shooting and that multiple rounds were fired.
Multiple Dayton police officers took down the shooter, according to Carper.
The shooting came less than 24 hours after a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in which at least 20 people were killed and 26 were injured.
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Nonprofit marks El Paso shooting as 250th mass shooting in the U.S. for 2019
250 mass shootings (at least 4 people shot) in 210 or so days. This Dayton shooting was on the same day as the El Paso shooting. 2 a day now?
USA, USA, USA!
Yawn, oh well. Let's bust out the thoughts and prayers, let people and politicians pretend like they give a shit and then just wait for the next one, which will probably be a little bit later on today. And just think folks, school shooting season is once again almost upon us, we ain't seen nothing yet!
Remember when we were worried about Muslims terrorists? Now we have to worry about American domestic white supremacist acts of terrorism.
The US has 330 million plus people in this country.
Now, compare that number to the population to all the countries you listed. They have a small percentage of the population of the US. Also, most of those countries are socialist in nature, and have bans on most firearms.
Maybe a link to your meme?
Obviously, more guns is the answer... /s
His sister is among the victims.
Was it the sister of the LEO or the murderer?
The murderer.
Good Lord. Now I can't help but to wonder if she was the target or whether it was just fate that she was there.
I'm not sure which would be more tragic.
I am wondering the same thing Greg, at this point could be a combination of the two. Sadly, we will likely never know. Maybe she stole his Brittany Spears record collection...
OMG, how horrible for their family.
I can't imagine what they're going through.
"at this point could be a combination of the two."
I just don't see how that could be possible given how he was prepared. Body armor? Extra magazines? In my opinion, either he knew she was there and felt that she deserved his insane rage or she was at the wrong place at the wrong time when her brother snapped. I doubt it was over a CD collection, but nowadays who knows?
They all came in the same car, there have been conflicting reports as to whether there were 4 people in the car or 3.
Earlier reports were that the sister and her boyfriend are dead, later they changed that to "companion" and clearly stated that another "companion" was injured by Betts and helping law enforcement with background information.
Other countries have mentally ill people too, they don't have the mass shootings we do.
This is true in some other countries it is more fashionable for suicidal nuts to use bombs so they can kill 100 people more efficiently than a gun.
BINGO! See my comment:
One of the more dangerous trends as I see it when people comment on these tragedies is EUPHEMISM - watering down the seriousness of what is happening. Was it started when a famous person called a Marine's wiping out his fellow Marines, calling it "workplace violence"? Mental illness? No, call it what it is - TERRORISM or an attempt to emulate it.