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Eugene

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Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:28 PM Aug 2019

Alleged Dayton gunman Connor Betts showed signs of misogyny, mirroring a grim pattern for shooters

Source: ABC News

Alleged Dayton gunman Connor Betts showed signs of misogyny, mirroring a grim pattern for shooters

By ALEXANDRA SVOKOS Aug 10, 2019, 3:43 PM ET

Many questions remain in the motivations of the man who allegedly committed a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, last weekend, leaving nine dead before responding officers shot him to death.

But officials briefed on the investigation told ABC News the suspected shooter demonstrated a misogyny that was far more extreme than any of his political leanings.

In that, he follows a bleak pattern among mass shooters.

"There are red flags," Jacquelyn Campbell of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and one of the leading domestic violence researchers in the nation told ABC News. "There are things about these shooters' behavior before these things happen that I think we as a country need to think hard about in terms of trying to make these things less frequently happen."

After many mass shootings, information comes out that links the shooter to gender-based and domestic violence -- and many massacres, like this one, include female family members, partners and ex-partners among the victims.

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Alleged Dayton gunman Connor Betts showed signs of misogyny, mirroring a grim pattern for shooters (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2019 OP
Guess it doesn't apply here, but it would be nice to require a spouse to approve Hoyt Aug 2019 #1
 

Hoyt

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1. Guess it doesn't apply here, but it would be nice to require a spouse to approve
Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:50 PM
Aug 2019

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