2019 Dayton shooting | |
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Location | Ned Peppers Bar 419 East 5th Street Dayton, Ohio, United States |
Coordinates | 39°45′26″N 84°11′03″W / 39.7572°N 84.1843°W |
Date | August 4, 2019 c. 1:05 – 1:06 a.m. (EDT UTC−04:00) |
Target | People near Ned Peppers Bar |
Attack type | |
Weapons | Anderson Manufacturing AR-15 style pistol[1][2] |
Deaths | 10 (including the perpetrator and his brother[a]) |
Injured | 27 (17 from gunfire)[3][4] |
Perpetrator | Connor Stephen Betts |
Motive | Unknown[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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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.
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