The sickness spreads:
Nine people are dead after a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, according to police. Dayton Police say the suspect also is dead. Sixteen other people were injured in the incident that took place within 13 hours of a shooting that left 20 dead in El Paso, Texas.
The Dayton shooting took place around 1 a.m. on East 5th Street in the city's Oregon district, a popular downtown area, Dayton Deputy Director and Assistant Chief of Police Lt. Col. Matt Carper told reporters early Sunday morning.
The suspect, who was shot and killed by responding officers, has not yet been identified. Carper said the shooter fired multiple rounds from a "long gun." The shooting happened as the suspect was making his way toward a bar called Ned Peppers, Montgomery County Emergency Services spokeswoman Deb Decker said.
The shooter wore body armor, Decker said.Unlike El Paso, the shooter died during the assault, so identifying him and his motives will take longer. But, the commonality between the two horrific mass murders is the ubiquity of these assault weapons -- available to anyone who passes the most minimal threshold. No other country in the "civilized" world allows this insanity.
UPDATE: Somehow, we knew "young white male" was going to be in the shooter's profile again:
“The mayor said it was -- a young white male. I believe she may have said his age, I believe early 20s but I don't know for sure. He came not from the city of Dayton, he came from a town in Montgomery County nearby, that is the county Dayton is in and that is all that I know,” [Sen. Sherrod] Brown said.UPDATE II: He's being identified as 24- year- old Connor Betts of Bellbrook, OH.
UPDATE III: Of course, officials of the rotted- out, despicable Trump Republican Party are blaming both shootings on "video games" and "social media," without any political context at all. This is cowardice and evil incarnate.
UPDATE IV: Much like his cowardly comrades in Texas and elsewhere, Ohio's Republican Senator wants to deflect the responsibility for mass shootings to "mental health." What, "video games" was already taken?
