Multiple People Were Shot In Dayton, Ohio's Oregon District

Nine people were fatally shot and over two dozen more were injured immediately after someone opened fire in Dayton's historic Oregon District on Sunday, August 4, according to the Dayton Police Department. It marks the second mass shooting in the U.S. In much less than 14 hours.


It was 1 a.M. Once the shooter, clad in body armor and carrying a .223-caliber rifle with added high-capacity magazines, started firing on the crowded district popular with both tourists and locals alike, Mayor Nan Whaley mentioned at a Sunday morning news conference. Authorities responded speedily — police shot and killed the shooter "in far less than a minute," Whaley 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,” Whaley said.


Authorities believe that the shooter acted on his own, although he hasn't however been identified and the investigation is still ongoing. According to the Washington Post, state and local police and the FBI are still interviewing dozens of people. They have not speculated on the gunman's motive and have not said if the gunman was targeting any specific person or place, Police Lt. Col. Matt Carper instructed them Post.

“As a mayor, this is a day that we all dread happening,” Whaley mentioned in the news conference. “And definitely what’s very sad as I’ve gotten messages from cities across the nation is that so several of us have gone through it.”




Whaley added that Dayton is the 250th mass shooting this year, several of which plagued the nation just this week. Dayton's shooting comes far less than a day after a perpetrator attacked a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 people; far less than a week immediately after a gunman opened fire on a garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three and wounding more than a dozen more; and one week soon after a shooter killed one individual and injured 11 more were injured in Brooklyn, New York.


President Trump tweeted on Sunday morning that "FBI, local and state law enforcement are working with each other in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio," but law enforcement officials mention it is still unclear if there really is any relationship between the two shootings.


“God bless the people of El Paso Texas,” President Trump tweeted on Sunday morning. “God bless the people of Dayton, Ohio.”


There have been nearly 90 people wounded or killed in mass shootings in the U.S. This month alone, according to Mass Shooting Tracker. It is August 4.