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Posted on: August 4, 2019 at 17:52:50 CT
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Chris Baker, who just resigned this summer after 14 years as Bellbrook High School principal, was asked about Betts’ time as a Bellbrook student.Asked about reports that, while a Bellbrook student, Betts was suspended for causing a lockdown by writing a “hit-list” on a bathroom wall, Baker said, “I would not dispute that information, but I don’t want to get involved any more than just making that comment.”A woman who went to high school with Betts recalled the hit-list.“I know he made the list,” she said. “I’m not sure who the names were on there...He had a plan to shoot up the school.”
When she first heard about the shooting, she said Betts’ name came to her mind.“I guessed it might’ve been him just from that list,” she said.She added that Betts was bullied at the high school and that he seemed “pretty normal” after he “got some help from making list.”Demoy Howell was a year behind Connor Betts at Bellbrook High School, where they were in Junior ROTC together. “He was always a little bit of an oddball,” said Howell, who graduated in 2014. “He had a dark sense of humor - jokes about people dying. He would wear all black. I remember sensing a dark energy around him.” He never had a problem with Betts, but remembers friends saying he made them feel threatened or uncomfortable. The rigor of the military program seemed to have a calming influence, as Betts didn’t seem to have many friends, he added. “Even though we all knew he was kind of weird, I felt like the colonels kind of kept him together,” Howell said. “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).” Later, Howell said, the two worked together at a fast-food restaurant. “Generally there was no issue,” he said. “He kind of kept it together.” Betts also worked at a gas station where Howell would sometimes stop in to grab a drink. “He was normal there, too,” he said. “He kept on a professional face.”
“I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an ‘I hate everybody’ crime,” Howell said. “I honestly feel more comfortable now knowing that he’s gone.”
Edited by Ace at 17:53:55 on 08/04/19
When she first heard about the shooting, she said Betts’ name came to her mind.“I guessed it might’ve been him just from that list,” she said.She added that Betts was bullied at the high school and that he seemed “pretty normal” after he “got some help from making list.”Demoy Howell was a year behind Connor Betts at Bellbrook High School, where they were in Junior ROTC together. “He was always a little bit of an oddball,” said Howell, who graduated in 2014. “He had a dark sense of humor - jokes about people dying. He would wear all black. I remember sensing a dark energy around him.” He never had a problem with Betts, but remembers friends saying he made them feel threatened or uncomfortable. The rigor of the military program seemed to have a calming influence, as Betts didn’t seem to have many friends, he added. “Even though we all knew he was kind of weird, I felt like the colonels kind of kept him together,” Howell said. “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).” Later, Howell said, the two worked together at a fast-food restaurant. “Generally there was no issue,” he said. “He kind of kept it together.” Betts also worked at a gas station where Howell would sometimes stop in to grab a drink. “He was normal there, too,” he said. “He kept on a professional face.”
“I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an ‘I hate everybody’ crime,” Howell said. “I honestly feel more comfortable now knowing that he’s gone.”
Edited by Ace at 17:53:55 on 08/04/19
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nice pull from Twitter - how about this? - Ace AU - 8/4 17:52:50