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Dayton Police Killed Shooter Within 30 Seconds Of First Shot

Officials offered a timeline of the deadly events that left nine people dead and 27 injured in less than a minute early Sunday morning.

It took about 30 seconds to bring down the gunman who killed nine people and injured 27 others in a crowded section of downtown Dayton, Ohio, early on Sunday morning — just hours after another scene of violence ravaged the Texas city of El Paso.

But figuring out why the alleged shooter, Connor Betts, who lived with his family in

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