The gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio early Sunday maintained a “hit list”of high school classmates he wanted to kill or rape , CNN, meaning he fits into a larger pattern of mass shooters
with rich histories of violence against women.
While police have not yet uncovered what motivated 24-year-old Connor Betts to open fire at a popular nightlife district before getting fatally shot himself, they do have quite a bit of material to work with from his past. One classmate, included on Betts’ list, recalled him as being “dark” and “depressive.
“I said, ‘Hey, I don’t want to drag you into this, but we have to go to the police. This guy could go to the school, he could kill people, he could hurt my family, he could hurt you,’” Partridge recalled telling his friend.Predictably, many of the female students on the “rape” list were girls who had romantically rejected Betts; he was said to have spoken frequently about violence, and called women “sluts.
The narrative around mass shooters as spurned men enacting revenge is so consistent as to become cliché. Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz
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