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| Mass Shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Kills at Least 9: Live Updates | Mass Shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Kills at Least 9: Live Updates |
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| James Williams, 50, who owns a pizzeria called Double Deuce, had been seated with friends on the patio at Ned Peppers as a line to get into the bar snaked along the sidewalk. Then they moved to a bar across the street called Newcom’s Tavern. Suddenly, they heard shots. | |
| “We heard the bang-bang-bang-bang,” Mr. Williams recalled in a telephone interview on Sunday. “Everybody started rushing to the back of the bar. Then the shots stopped, and people were screaming ‘Help!’” | |
| Mr. Williams and his friend Holly Redman rushed back to Ned Peppers, and found bodies lying all over the ground. Police at the scene were asking for belts to use as tourniquets, Mr. Williams said, so he offered his. | |
| Ms. Redman, 31, a paraprofessional who works with disabled children and is certified in CPR, began helping an effort to save a man who had been shot in the groin. | |
| The did chest compressions. Ms. Redman said she began breathing into his mouth, felt for a pulse, and stripped off her shirt to use to try to stem his bleeding. | |
| “He was gurgling,” she said on Sunday. “I looked him in the eye. I tried to talk to him. I said ‘Hang on, buddy.’” But he didn’t survive. | |
| She said another man next to her screamed the name Patricia. | |
| “They were like ‘She’s gone,’” Ms. Redman said. “And he was like, ‘No. Please, God. Tell me it’s not true.’” | |
| There were bodies “everywhere you looked,” she said. “It was like World War II. I just started crying and looking at all these people. That could have been us. Three or four minutes, and that could have been us.” | |
| Mr. Williams said he was told that the bouncer at Ned Peppers had prevented the gunman from entering the bar, which opened onto a crowded dance floor. In a Facebook message, Ned Peppers said the bouncer “was sent to the hospital for shrapnel-related” injuries but was expected to recover. | |
| Mr. Williams, who also has a civilian job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside the city, said he had watched the news of the El Paso mass shooting earlier on Saturday. At the time, he said, he thought it was “just another mass shooting that we hear about all the time, and you never think it’s going to hit home.” | |
| He said he counted at least seven bodies, including one in the doorway of Ned Peppers, which had been handcuffed. That was the gunman, he said the police told him. A backpack lay nearby. | |
| “You just wouldn’t believe the people who have pulled together and tried to save these people, and there wasn’t any saving,” Mr. Williams said. “Most of them were probably dead.” | |
| At least nine people were killed and at least 27 were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, the second deadly American mass shooting in less than 24 hours and the third in a week. | At least nine people were killed and at least 27 were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, the second deadly American mass shooting in less than 24 hours and the third in a week. |
| The shooting began at 1:07 a.m. on East Fifth Street in the city’s Oregon entertainment district, which was bustling with more than one thousand late-night revelers enjoying a warm summer evening, Mayor Nan Whaley said. Uniformed officers on routine patrol in the area responded, shooting and killing the gunman within one minute of his first gunshots, she said. | The shooting began at 1:07 a.m. on East Fifth Street in the city’s Oregon entertainment district, which was bustling with more than one thousand late-night revelers enjoying a warm summer evening, Mayor Nan Whaley said. Uniformed officers on routine patrol in the area responded, shooting and killing the gunman within one minute of his first gunshots, she said. |
| “While this is a terribly sad day for our city, I am amazed by the quick response of Dayton Police that saved literally hundreds of lives,” she said at a news conference. | “While this is a terribly sad day for our city, I am amazed by the quick response of Dayton Police that saved literally hundreds of lives,” she said at a news conference. |
| Ms. Whaley said that victims, including one who is in critical condition and several who were in serious condition, were receiving treatment at local hospitals. | Ms. Whaley said that victims, including one who is in critical condition and several who were in serious condition, were receiving treatment at local hospitals. |
| An employee at Ned Peppers, a bar on the street, wrote in a post on Instagram that “all of our staff is safe and our hearts go out to everyone involved as we gather information.” | An employee at Ned Peppers, a bar on the street, wrote in a post on Instagram that “all of our staff is safe and our hearts go out to everyone involved as we gather information.” |
| The police have not identified the gunman or a motive for the attack. | The police have not identified the gunman or a motive for the attack. |
| The gunman appeared ready to exact an even higher toll. He was outfitted in body armor and carried a rifle and multiple high-capacity magazines for it, Ms. Whaley said. | The gunman appeared ready to exact an even higher toll. He was outfitted in body armor and carried a rifle and multiple high-capacity magazines for it, Ms. Whaley said. |
| There were no immediate clues to what might have motivated him, the police said, and no manifesto or social media presence has been found so far. | There were no immediate clues to what might have motivated him, the police said, and no manifesto or social media presence has been found so far. |
| “We understand that the public wants to know who this person is, and that will be released,” said Richard S. Biehl, Dayton’s police chief. “Obviously, we’re working very hard to give the public an answer as to what the motivation might have been.” | “We understand that the public wants to know who this person is, and that will be released,” said Richard S. Biehl, Dayton’s police chief. “Obviously, we’re working very hard to give the public an answer as to what the motivation might have been.” |
| It was the latest tragedy in one of the worst weeks in memory for gun violence in the United States. The shooting came less than a day after a gunman in El Paso left at least 20 dead and 26 others wounded inside a Walmart store. Last week, a gunman killed three people and wounded 13 others in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif. | It was the latest tragedy in one of the worst weeks in memory for gun violence in the United States. The shooting came less than a day after a gunman in El Paso left at least 20 dead and 26 others wounded inside a Walmart store. Last week, a gunman killed three people and wounded 13 others in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif. |
| In all, there have been at least 32 mass shootings, defined as three or more killings in a single episode, in the United States this year. | In all, there have been at least 32 mass shootings, defined as three or more killings in a single episode, in the United States this year. |
| On Twitter, most of the trending topics — the subjects talked about the most — were about gun violence. At one point Sunday morning, so many people used the phrase “another shooting” it became one of the nation’s top 10 topics. | On Twitter, most of the trending topics — the subjects talked about the most — were about gun violence. At one point Sunday morning, so many people used the phrase “another shooting” it became one of the nation’s top 10 topics. |
| Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, wrote on Twitter late Saturday that “killing random civilians to spread a political message is terrorism.” | |
| “F.B.I. classifies it as domestic terrorism, but ‘white terrorism’ is more precise,” Mr. Rosenstein said on Twitter. “Many of the killers are lone-wolf losers indoctrinated to hate through the internet, just like Islamic terrorists.” | |
| Daniel Victor contributed reporting. |