FBI finds gunman in Dayton, Ohio, rampage was obsessed with violence


  • World
  • Tuesday, 06 Aug 2019

FILE PHOTO: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow (L) speaks with Ohio Governor Mike DeWine at a meeting with U.S. Governors at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young

(Reuters) - The gunman who killed his sister and eight other people in Dayton, Ohio, before he was slain by police had a history of violent obsessions and previously mused about committing mass murder, an FBI official said on Tuesday.

FBI agent Todd Wickerham told a news conference two days after the massacre in the streets of Dayton's historic downtown Oregon District that investigators have yet to conclude what motivated the killer or whether he may have had an accomplice.

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