Including Dayton, there have been nearly 90 people wounded or killed in mass shootings in the U.S. this month alone. It is August 4.
victims included the perpetrator's sister, Megan Betts. She was 22. Monica E. Brickhouse, 39; Nicholas P. Cumer, 25; Derrick R. Fudge, 57; Thomas J. McNichols; Lois L. Oglesby, 27; Saeed Saleh, 38; Logan Turner, 30; and Beatrice N. Warren-Curtis, 36, were also killed by the perpetrator. Six of the victims were Black; the other three were white. Per the, authorities called it"unlikely" that the perpetrator would have shot at people based on race.
“While this is a terribly sad day for our city, I am amazed by the quick response of Dayton police that saved literally hundreds of lives,” Mayor Whaley said. Authorities believe that the shooter, who was a white man, acted on his own; the investigation is still ongoing., state and local police and the FBI are still interviewing dozens of people. They have not speculated on the gunman's motive and have not said if the gunman was targeting any specific person or place, Police Lt. Col. Matt Carper told the“As a mayor, this is a day that we all dread happening,” Whaley said in the news conference.
Whaley added that Dayton is the 250th mass shooting this year, many of which plagued the country just this week. Dayton's shooting comes less than a day after a perpetrator
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