2019 Dayton shooting

2019 Dayton shooting
A memorial site commemorating the victims of the shooting
Map of the events of the shooting within the Oregon Historic District
LocationNed Peppers Bar
419 East 5th Street
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Coordinates39°45′26″N 84°11′03″W / 39.7572°N 84.1843°W / 39.7572; -84.1843
DateAugust 4, 2019 (2019-08-04)
c. 1:05 – 1:06 a.m. (EDT UTC−04:00)
TargetPeople near Ned Peppers Bar
Attack type
WeaponsAnderson Manufacturing AR-15 style pistol[1][2]
Deaths10 (including the perpetrator and his brother[a])
Injured27 (17 from gunfire)[3][4]
PerpetratorConnor Stephen Betts
MotiveUnknown[5]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

A search of the shooter's home found evidence that showed an interest in violence and mass shootings and that he had expressed a desire to commit one. He considered himself a leftist and voiced his support for Antifa;[9] a preliminary assessment did not indicate that Betts had a racial or political motive.[10] The attack occurred just 13 hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.[11]

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  3. ^ a b c Sewell, Dan; Seewer, John (August 13, 2019). "Ohio Shooter Hit 26 People in Half a Minute". KNTV. Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
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  5. ^ "FBI releases final report on investigation into motive behind Dayton mass shooting". WLWT. November 29, 2021. Archived from the original on August 6, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024. The investigation revealed Betts acted alone and was not directed by any organization or aligned to a specific ideological group, the report states. It also found Betts' fascination with mass shootings, serial killings and murder-suicide for at least a decade likely contributed to the shooting.
  6. ^ a b Jamieson, Amber; Baird, Addy (August 4, 2019). "The Victims Of The Dayton Mass Shooting Include The Gunman's Brother And 8 Others". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on August 7, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Brownworth, Victoria A. (August 15, 2019). "News Analysis: Dayton shooter's sibling continues to be misgendered by media". Philadelphia Gay News. Archived from the original on January 19, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Police: Gunman's sister among 9 killed in Dayton mass shooting". WLWT. August 4, 2019. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2019. According to Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl, officers engaged the suspect within 20 seconds of hearing shots fired. Thirty seconds after the gunman began shooting, he was shot and killed by first responders, Biehl said.
  9. ^ Murphy, Paul; Toropin, Konstantin (August 5, 2019). "The Dayton shooter had an extreme left Twitter feed". CNN. Archived from the original on August 6, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
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  11. ^ Laughland, Sam Levin Oliver; Walters, Joanna (August 5, 2019). "Thirty dead in 13 hours: US reckons with back-to-back mass shootings". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2020.


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