2019 Dayton shooting
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On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[lower-alpha 1] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][5][6] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][7] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[7] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.
2019 Dayton shooting | |
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Location | Ned Peppers Bar 419 East 5th Street Dayton, Ohio, United States |
Coordinates | 39.7572°N 84.1843°W / 39.7572; -84.1843 |
Date | August 4, 2019 (2019-08-04) c. 1:05 – 1:06 a.m. (EDT UTC−04:00) |
Target | People near Ned Peppers Bar |
Attack type | |
Weapons | AR-15 style pistol[1][2] |
Deaths | 10 (including the perpetrator and his brother[lower-alpha 1]) |
Injured | 27 (17 from gunfire)[3][4] |
Perpetrator | Connor Stephen Betts |
Motive | Unknown |
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,[8] a preliminary assessment did not indicate that Betts had a racial or political motive.[9] The attack occurred just 13 hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.[10]