The Dayton gunman who killed 9, including his own sister, had a history of complaints with police and school officials. He reportedly had a rape list, a kill list, and would threaten to kill customers at his job if they didn’t tip him:
DAILY MAIL – Multiple former classmates at Bellbrook High School have said they reported Betts’ behavior to police but claim nothing was done to address the red flags and say they weren’t surprised he was responsible for the recent massacre.
Jessica Masseth, a female classmate who was named on a rape list compiled by Betts, said she contacted police at the time and that she handed her phone over to authorities so they could see threats he sent her.
She said that Betts had texted her a copy of the rape list.
‘The school failed us. The police failed us. He spoke and wrote of rape, decapitation and just the total destruction of those on that list, which included me,’ Masseth wrote on Facebook.
‘None of us are surprised by this. My mom called me with his name and I said ‘makes sense’. If Bellbrook High School had taken it more seriously… If the police had treated it like it should have been treated… There are levels of failure here that are sick.
‘This could have been prevented 10 f**king years ago when I made that phone call, when I was interviewed by the police and when I told the school.’
The rape list included girls who had spurned his advances or thought they were better than him. There was another ‘kill list’ that included names of boys who he considered a threat.
Betts was once taken off a school bus by police and then later suspended after the lists were reported to authorities.
“Conner Betts was a psychopath…”
An ex-classmate who worked with Betts at a fast food restaurant claims he threatened to kill customers who didn’t leave tips and another said he regularly spoke of rape and decapitation.
‘Conner Betts was a psychopath… I remember when he threatened to shoot up our school and had a hit list of people that he wanted to kill. I’ve worked with him too and he scared the employees on a daily basis,’ Bri Monique said.
‘Everyone who knew him knew he had issues. I would tell people all the time to just stay away from him because he’s threatened to kill people.
‘When the customers didn’t tip him, he would threaten to go to their house and kill them. I thought he was just all talk but then I would be at work by myself with him and hear him chanting things that sounded like he was worshiping the devil. I would be calling his name for him to stop and he wouldn’t answer.’
With a history like this it’s a surprise to me that he was allowed by the school to be in the ROTC.
I’m also not sure yet how he obtained his firearms, but based on what is in this article, there should have been enough cause over the years to put him on a list to prevent him from being able to legally purchase firearms from a gun store, at least pending a psych evaluation.
It is looking like Betts is another disturbed student who fell through the cracks. I know hindsight is 2020, especially after a massacre like this, and that we are still waiting on all the facts. But we must learn from these mistakes so that we can catch people like Betts before the atrocious happens.