Mass shooting at Dayton kills 10 people, 13 hours after El Paso attack

The mass shooting killed 10 people, included the suspect and 16 others were injured in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, 13 hours after another shooting at El Paso, Texas.

The shooting at Dayton, Ohio (photo: Aljazeera)

According to the police department, at least 9 people and the suspect who was shot by the police dead, 16 others got injuries in the mass shooting, occurred at 1.22 am local time on Sunday in Oregon District, Dayton, Ohio. The shooting was done by a man with a rifle, started targeting people outside a bar, as The Dayton Daily News reported.

In the Twitter, the Dayton’s police said “in the immediate vicinity when this shooting began and were able to respond and put an end to it quickly".

The Miami Valley Hospital spokeswoman Terrea Little confirmed that all 16 wounded victims was taken to this hospital. However, she gave no information about the health condition of those victims.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Matt Carper called the shooting as “a very strategic incident” and shared that “We're still interviewing obviously a lot of witnesses as well as officers to determine if anyone else was involved".

The suspect of the shooting and his motive are under investigated.

This is the second mass shooting in the weekend at the US, after the attack at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas which killed at least 20 people and wounded 26 people in the fire of the 21 years old suspect, Patrick Crusius. The El Paso shooting are being investigated as a case of domestic terrorism by the FBI after detecting the suspect’s manifesto about preventing “Hispanic invasion” and expressing his support for Christchurch mosque shootings.

Aljazeera, DW, CNN ( Van Nguyen )