Ohio massacre comes after Texas, Calif. attacks

It took just 30 seconds in Ohio and zero bullets in Texas for officers to stop two mass shooters this weekend, but not before dozens were killed and injured in less than 24 hours.

In all, 32 people died and at least 65 were injured in three shootings in Ohio, Texas and California within the span of a week.

The bloodshed in Dayton, Ohio, was likely limited by the swift police response. Officers patrolling the area took just 30 seconds to stop the shooting, which unfolded around

1 a.m. on the streets of the downtown Oregon District, Mayor Nan Whaley said.

Video released by police shows 24-year-old Connor Betts being shot down by officers, just steps away from entering a bar filled with hiding patrons.

Had police not responded so quickly, “hundreds of people in the Oregon District could be dead today,” Whaley said.

Betts’ 22-year-old sister, Megan Betts, was among the nine people killed; 27 people were injured.

That shooting occurred hours after one in the Texas border city of El Paso, where a gunman opened fire in a shopping area packed with thousands of people during the busy back-to-school season. The attack killed 20 and wounded more than two dozen, many of them critically.

Betts was armed with a .223-caliber rifle with magazines capable of holding at least 100 rounds of ammunition and squeezed off dozens of shots before he was gunned down no more than 30 seconds after his rampage began, Police Chief Richard Biehl said.

Police have said there was nothing in his background to prevent him from buying the firearm he used.

It could’ve been worse

Surveillance video shared by police showed officers shot Betts at the doorstep of further destruction, just stopping him from entering a bar where some people took cover when the chaos broke out around 1 a.m. in the historic Oregon District.

Had he gotten inside the bar, the result would have been “catastrophic,” Biehl said.

Betts was from Bellbrook, southeast of Dayton. Bellbrook Police Chief Doug Doherty said he and his officers weren’t aware of any history of violence by Betts, including during high school, and had no previous contact with him.

Bellbrook-sugarcreek Local Schools also confirmed Betts graduated in 2013 but didn’t immediately release information about his records.

Nikita Papillon, 23, was at Newcom’s Tavern when the shooting started. She said she saw a girl she had talked to earlier lying across the street outside Ned Peppers, a bar she described as the kind of place “where you don’t have to worry about someone shooting up the place.”

“People my age, we don’t think something like this is going to happen,” Papillon said. “And when it happens, words can’t describe it.”

Two of Betts’ high school classmates 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.

Both former classmates told The Associated Press that Betts was suspended during their junior year at suburban Bellbrook High School after a hit list was found scrawled in a school bathroom. That followed an earlier suspension after Betts came to school with a list of female students he wanted to sexually assault, according to the two classmates, a man and a woman who are both now 24 and spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern they might face harassment.

‘Hate has no place’

President Donald Trump was briefed on the Dayton shooting and praised law enforcement’s speedy response in a tweet Sunday.

The FBI is assisting with the investigation as authorities put Betts’ life