Dayton Attacker Showed Ex-Girlfriend Video of Mass Shooting on 1st Date

It was a troubling sign: When Adelia Johnson went on a first date with the man who would latermurder nine people in Dayton, Ohio, he showed her a video of a mass shooting.

The shooter, Connor Betts, 24, also took Johnson to a gun range, she toldToday. Another disturbing sign was that he performed in a heavy metal band whose lyrics were sexually violent, she said.

The pair dated for several months and bonded over the fact that they both had mental illness, but she broke up with him in May, Johnson told the show.

On Sunday, at 1:05 a.m.,the shooter opened fire in the streetsof the lively Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people and injuring 27. One of the fatal victims was the shooter’s sister,22-year-old Megan Betts, with whom he had grown up in the Dayton suburbs.

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“This isn’t about race, this isn’t about religion, it’s none of those things,” Johnson said. “This is a man who was in pain and didn’t get the help that he needed.”

Theo Gainey, a high school classmate, described the shooter as “kind of a loner, bit of an outcast.” He added, “Lots of people saw kind of a dark side in him.”

The Dayton massacre was the second mass shooting in the United States in less than 24 hours. The day before, 22 people were fatally shot in a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

source: people.com