The mayor of Dayton, Ohio said Sunday that her city could have had "hundreds of lost lives" if police were slower in responding to a mass shooting earlier that morning.

"In under a minute, the Dayton Police Department had the situation under control," Nan Whaley (D) said on ABC's "This Week."

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"And what's scary about that is if they were not there, the hundreds of lost lives we would've had in the Oregon District," she said.

"This is a safe area of the city where thousands of people come every evening to enjoy with friends and young people," she added. "It's one of the most diverse parts of Dayton and we have to start asking the question of why is Dayton the 250th mass shooting this year in our country."

"In under a minute the Dayton police department had the situation under control," Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley says. "And what's scary about that is that if they were not there, the hundreds of lost lives that we would've had in the Oregon district."https://t.co/MbnF4BZ5XD pic.twitter.com/39VOWYiJAM — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 4, 2019