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Police Chief Richard Biehl said Sunday at a press conference that Megan arrived at Ned Peppers bar with her brother and a companion but “separated” at some point. They say her companion was wounded but lived. She was shot in the same area as the other victims, according to police. The motive for why Connor shot and killed his sister is unknown. The companion was not named.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-b ... er-father/

As police were telling it on Sunday, 24-year-old Connor killed his 22-year-old sister, Megan, and injured a male friend before stepping out of his car in Dayton and murdering seven other innocents with an assault rifle
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dayton-sh ... s-murderer

The Cincinnati Enquirer asked two experts Monday about the family connection in Sunday’s mass murder. They said it is too early to see the factors that led to Megan Betts’ death apparently at the hands of her brother, Connor Betts, 24, of Bellbrook, Ohio.

“Boy, that’s a tough one,” said Randolph Roth, an Ohio State University historian whose specialty is murder. “We don’t know, forensically, the sequence of events. We don’t know if she was shot trying to stop him.”

Dayton police have said Megan Betts and a male friend spent a portion of Saturday night with her brother, and the trio traveled together to the Oregon District. At some point, Connor Betts separated from his sister, but when he returned to the scene, he was armed and firing . . .

Police said Megan Betts was among the first victims. The male friend, shot in the torso, was among 14 people injured in the shooting. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said Monday there was no indication Megan Betts or the male friend knew of the weapons. He said Connor Betts’ intentions toward his sister during the shooting are not known.

“It just seems to defy believability that he would shoot his own sister, but it is also hard to believe he didn’t recognize his sister,” Biehl said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 928195001/

Connor later returned from an alleyway near where the vehicle was parked wearing a bulletproof vest and hearing protection and opened fire. His sister and the male companion, whose identity has not been released, were the second and third victims gunned down, police say. The male survived the attack and is reportedly cooperating with authorities.

Responding officers engaged and killed the shooter "instantaneously and effectively," ending the rampage "in 30 seconds" and preventing much more bloodshed, Chief Biehl told reporters after the attack.

"Had this individual made it through the doorway of Ned Peppers with that level of weaponry, there would have been catastrophic injuries and a loss of life," he added

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Elizabeth wrote: ↑August 6th, 2019, 2:30 pm

How to explain the photo?

Silver Pie wrote: ↑August 6th, 2019, 5:47 pm Here's another place that says the brother and sister separated - and that she got shot where the others got shot, not in or near the car.

Police Chief Richard Biehl said Sunday at a press conference that Megan arrived at Ned Peppers bar with her brother and a companion but “separated” at some point. They say her companion was wounded but lived. She was shot in the same area as the other victims, according to police. The motive for why Connor shot and killed his sister is unknown. The companion was not named.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-b ... er-father/

But this one says it differently:

As police were telling it on Sunday, 24-year-old Connor killed his 22-year-old sister, Megan, and injured a male friend before stepping out of his car in Dayton and murdering seven other innocents with an assault rifle
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dayton-sh ... s-murderer

Maybe the truth is that the police thought that, but it wasn't true? Or he shot them after they got out of the car, but he hadn't stepped out of the car yet (though how anyone would know, unless the "male friend" saw him and said so, is beyond me)?

Silver Pie wrote: ↑August 6th, 2019, 6:06 pm

The Cincinnati Enquirer asked two experts Monday about the family connection in Sunday’s mass murder. They said it is too early to see the factors that led to Megan Betts’ death apparently at the hands of her brother, Connor Betts, 24, of Bellbrook, Ohio.

“Boy, that’s a tough one,” said Randolph Roth, an Ohio State University historian whose specialty is murder. “We don’t know, forensically, the sequence of events. We don’t know if she was shot trying to stop him.”

Dayton police have said Megan Betts and a male friend spent a portion of Saturday night with her brother, and the trio traveled together to the Oregon District. At some point, Connor Betts separated from his sister, but when he returned to the scene, he was armed and firing . . .

Police said Megan Betts was among the first victims. The male friend, shot in the torso, was among 14 people injured in the shooting. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said Monday there was no indication Megan Betts or the male friend knew of the weapons. He said Connor Betts’ intentions toward his sister during the shooting are not known.

“It just seems to defy believability that he would shoot his own sister, but it is also hard to believe he didn’t recognize his sister,” Biehl said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 928195001/

JohnnyL wrote: ↑August 6th, 2019, 6:40 pm Hmm... Is her DNA on the assault rifle??

These stories are pretty messed up--he's there, he's not; he had a rifle in the car, he had nothing; he was dressed in armor, he wasn't; etc. It's like they can't get a thing straight.