Man who drove with Dayton mass shooter and sister before massacre was his best friend

[LiberalArkie]

Dayton gunman Connor Betts shot and critically injured his best friend when he killed nine victims including his own sister, Megan, 22.

DailyMail.com has exclusively learned that Charles 'Chace' Beard, 24, was the man who was in the car with Betts and Megan when they drove to the Oregon District where Betts carried out the second mass shooting of the weekend.

And Beard was among the first victims to be shot by 24-year-old Betts in his so-far motiveless massacre conducted in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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'You can blame bullying (which would be lying), you can blame media (which would be extremely untruthful) or you can blame a society where threats against women that are bad enough to get you kicked out of high school are simply forgotten and allowed to ferment for almost a decade so he can kill nine people,' Ben Seitz wrote on Facebook.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7324839/Connor-Betts-shot-best-friend-mass-shooting-driving-Dayton.html

NOTE: This is a very good article

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, I pray Beard gets well soon

[Grasswire2]

2. what is this I am seeing about the killer being a lefty?

Something about his twitter feed.

[maryellen99]

3. They claim he wanted Warren for POTUS

Which doesn’t make sense because he was a violent misogynist.

[LiberalArkie]

5. He may have been. When someone is psychotic who knows.

[JHB]

8. He had a bunch of social media posts claiming to be for Warren, to be a socialist...

...but there's other stuff where he claimed to worship satan, to be an atheist, etc. And he was part of a disgustingly freaky misogynous band.

He was all over the place, and the comments from his high school classmates and co-workers point to someone who liked to shock, intimidate, and troll. And that's when he wasn't cooking up lists of people to murder and rape.

But, both the RWingers and "Both Sides" media are eager to latch on to anything they can throw up and deflect from the several guys who have quoted Trump or cited him as a motivator (e.g., the El Paso guy, the New Zealand guy, etc.).

[blogslut]

4. This is very confusing.

Was Betts dressed in that gear when they drove to the club or did he change clothes at some point? Did he force his friend and his sister to drive him? Did the friend and the sister know he was bringing a mass murder kit with him?

[LiberalArkie]

6. My guess is, when he went to park the car, he got all the gear out of the trunk.

There was another shotgun in the trunk of car.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. "You can blame a society where threats against women that are bad enough..."

"... to get you kicked out of high school are simply forgotten and allowed to ferment for almost a decade so he can kill nine people."

The Dayton shooter was sexually frustrated (for good reason), like the shooter in El Paso who complained about "race mixing" in his manifesto.

Humans are animals, and many males in the animal world can become violent over reproductive opportunities.

A study about female primates injured and killed because their male "mate guardians" became violent toward them:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982217307145