24 hours. Police haven’t released further information about Betts or publicly discussed a motive.
His 22-year-old sister Megan was the youngest of the dead — all killed in the same area of bars, restaurants, and theaters that is considered a safe area downtown, police said.
Connor Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of Dayton’s historic Oregon District about 1 a.m. in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours. Police haven’t released further information about Betts or publicly discussed a motive.
His 22-year-old sister Megan was the youngest of the dead — all killed in the same area of bars, restaurants, and theaters that is considered a safe area downtown, police said.
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said the shooter was wearing body armor and had additional high-capacity magazines. Had police not responded so quickly, “hundreds of people in the Oregon District could be dead today,” she said.
Six of the nine killed were black, police said. Although they’ll