The Dayton shooter reportedly had a history of making misogynistic threats targeting former female classmates
Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images The 24-year-old man who murdered nine people at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday had a history of making misogynist threats targeting former female classmates, according to several news reports. More recently, he was also in a band that sang violent songs about raping and murdering women, according to Vice News.
That “hit list” was confirmed by a former principal of Bellbrook High School, who said that Betts had been suspended for “causing a lockdown by writing a hit list on a bathroom wall” when he was a sophomore. Betts graduated from Bellbrook in 2013. Despite Betts’s history, he was able to legally purchase the AR-15-like assault weapon he used to commit the shooting, which injured an additional 27 people, and magazines containing 100 rounds. A background check would only have yielded a few traffic violations, according to the Washington Post.
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