Dayton mass shooter once wrote a ‘hit-list’ on HS bathroom wall

The Dayton mass shooting suspect was once suspended from high school for writing a “hit-list” on a bathroom wall and causing a lockdown, a report says.

Connor Betts’ former principal, Chris Baker, confirmed his suspension to the Dayton Daily News — saying, “I would not dispute that information.”

He refused to speak further on what happened.

“I don’t want to get involved any more than just making that comment,” Baker told the local paper.

A woman who attended Bellbrook High School with Betts, 24, said she remembered the hit-list vividly.

“I guessed it might’ve been him just from that list,” she said, refusing to be identified.

“I know he made the list,” the woman added. “I’m not sure who the names were on there … He had a plan to shoot up the school.”

The former classmate said Betts had been bullied in high school, but eventually seemed “pretty normal” after getting “some help.”

Another person who went to Bellbrook with the young man described him as “a little bit of an oddball.”

“He had a dark sense of humor — jokes about dying,” Demoy Howell told the Daily News. “He would wear all black. I remember sensing a dark energy around him.”

Howell added, “There was a lockdown one year and it was because he wrote something in the bathroom. Then he kind of fell off the face of the earth. I don’t remember him walking (at graduation).”

Like the other former student, Howell later sensed a change in Betts while working together with him at a local fast-food spot.

“Generally there was no issue,” Howell said. “He kind of kept it together.”

Describing Betts’ rampage, Howell said: “I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an ‘I hate everybody’ crime. I honestly feel more comfortable now knowing that he’s gone.”

Nine people were killed and more than two dozen wounded in the early Sunday slaughter, which took place just hours after a 21-year-old Texan fatally shot 20 people and injured 26 others at a Walmart in El Paso. Betts was shot and killed by police.

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