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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

And it is Monday, August 5th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, it took just 30 seconds in Ohio and zero bullets in Texas for officers to stop

two mass shootings this weekend, but not before 29 people were killed and about 50 injured in

less than 24 hours. High school classmates of the gunmen who killed nine people early Sunday

in Dayton, Ohio say he was suspended for compiling a hit list of those he wanted to kill and a

rape list of girls he wanted to sexually assault.

The accounts by two former classmates emerged after police said there was nothing in the

background of 24-year-old Connor Betts that would have prevented him from purchasing a rifle

with extended ammunition magazines that he used to open fire outside a crowded bar.

Police on patrol in the entertainment district fatally shot him less than a

minute later. The discovery of the hit list in early 2012 sparked a police investigation and roughly

one third of Bellbrook students skipped school out of fear, according to an article in the Dayton Daily News.

Though Betts, who was 17 at the time, was not publicly named by authorities at the time.

As the author of the list, the former classmates said it was common knowledge within the school that he was the one suspended over the incident.

Betts had no apparent criminal record as an adult, though, if he had been charged as a juvenile

that would typically be sealed under state law.

It took the first officer six minutes to arrive at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart

on Saturday morning after reports of an active shooter. By then a massacre that would become one

of the 10 deadliest in modern U.S. history had already unfolded. A 21-year-old white supremacist

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