FBI concerned mass shootings may inspire copycat attacks

Published August 5, 2019 4:36pm ET



The FBI is warning the weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, may inspire copycats, as at least one threat made in the aftermath of the two massacres credited the attacks.

The FBI said late Sunday that violent domestic extremists “could become inspired by these and previous high-profile attacks.”

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