By Kevin Sullivan, Valerie Strauss and Emily Davies, The Washington Post, August 6, 2019
Connor Betts, 24, who shot and killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, before police killed him, was a deeply troubled young man. He had a history of violence against girlfriends and fantasized about murder, keeping a “hit list” of people he wanted to target.
High school classmates said that school officials were aware of his behavior years ago, and that as a freshman, he was missing from school for months after police one day took him from a school bus.
Details of his past are still emerging, and school officials did not respond on Tuesday to questions about his disciplinary record during his school years. Federal authorities said they are investigating last weekend’s shooting as a potential domestic terrorism case because it is possible “violent ideologies” were behind the attack.
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