In a press conference on Thursday, the Montgomery County coroner announced the preliminary findings of the Dayton mass shooter’s autopsy.
Dr. Kent Harshbarger said the attacker, Connor Betts, 24, had cocaine, antidepressants, and alcohol in his system at the time of the shooting. He was killed by police at the scene, shooting him a total of 24 times in the upper torso and lower extremities, according to the Associated Press.
A pipe device and a clear baggie carrying cocaine was found on the shooter’s body.
The Montgomery County coroner also revealed all fatal gunshot wounds to the nine victims came from the attacker’s AR-15 style rifle. While two people were accidentally shot by police in the crossfire, their wounds were nonlethal. A total of nine people were killed before police shot the assailant in under a minute of the attack.
Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said the responding law enforcement’s goal was to “immediately stop the killing.”
According to the Dayton shooter’s now-deactivated Twitter account, he supported gun control, socialist causes, and was a supporter of presidential candidate Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“This is America: Guns on every corner, guns in every house, no freedom but that to kill,” one 2018 tweet said. He also tweeted to Ohio Sen. Rob Portman on the day of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, “@robportman hey rob. How much did they pay you to look the other way? 17 kids are dead. If not now, when?”
