The Enquirer

Four women and five men.

Six were black and three were white.

One was the gunman's sister.

These are the victims in Sunday's mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, ranging in age from 22 to 57:

Megan Betts, 22, the sister of the shooter.

Lois Oglesby, 27.

Saeed Saleh, 38.

Logan Turner, 30.

Nicholas Cumer, 25.

Thomas McNichols, 25.

Beatrice Warren-Curtis, 36.

Monica Brickhouse, 39.

Derrick Fudge, 57.

The shooter, identified as 24-year-old Connor Betts, of Bellbrook, Ohio, opened fire around 1 a.m. Sunday on East Fifth Street in Dayton's Oregon District.

Less than a minute later, responding officers shot and killed the gunman.

A friend, Dana Raber, described Megan Betts as a "sweetheart." Raber said she last saw Megan on Halloween a couple years ago, when her friend was dressed up as a scarecrow to frighten kids as they went around collecting candy.

"It made me smile because she did it in good fun," said Raber, 20. "She's a lot of fun."

Tajaun Cobbins, 23, of Dayton said he learned his sister, Lois Oglesby, was among the victims from friends on Facebook. He tried to drive to the scene but was redirected by police to the Dayton Convention Center, where authorities had arranged a family support center.

When Cobbins couldn't reach his sister on the phone, he feared the worst.

“Man, how could this happen?" Cobbins said. "She was just down here to have a good time."

Another of the victims, Cumer, was a graduate student in the master of cancer care program at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. Cumer was in Dayton doing internship work for the Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, according to a statement from the school.

Maple Tree wrote on its Facebook page that Cumer was one week away from completing his internship and was expected to graduate with a master’s degree in exercise physiology. Maple Tree offered the student a full-time position last week to manage one of company’s new offices.

He was also an assistant with the university marching band.

Brandon White headed to the convention center early Sunday morning for news about his cousin, Thomas McNichols. White's aunt called to tell him McNichols had been shot, but the family didn't know anything more.

"Me and my mom rushed down here, and we’re just waiting to hear something,” said White, 29, as he leaned on the hood of his car near a police barricade at the Main Street entrance to the Oregon District.

"There are cops all over the place down here on the weekend. He must have had a death wish or somethin’,” White said of the gunman.

Less than an hour later, White walked out of the convention center with his head in his hands, crying. Authorities confirmed later in the day his cousin had been killed.

The shooting in Dayton was the 250th mass shooting in the United States this year.

Just hours earlier, a different gunman killed 20 and wounded 26 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said Sunday's shooter was armed with .223-caliber "assault-style" rifle and had body armor and extra magazines. She called the shooting "a senseless act of violence."

"These things are so random," she said. "What really goes through my mind is this is completely preventable."