These Are The Victims Of The Dayton, Ohio, Mass Shooting
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING A mother of two fresh from maternity leave and a graduate student pursuing a career helping cancer victims are among the nine killed in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning that left 27 others injured. “It’s hard to imagine that there was much discrimination in the shooting,” Dayton Police Lt. Col. Matt Carper said when asked if they had been targeted. The victims have been identified as: Jordan Cofer, 22 Nicholas Cumer, 25 Thomas McNichols, 25 Lois Oglesby, 27 Logan Turner, 30 Beatrice Warren-Curtis, 36 Saeed Saleh, 38 Monica Brickhouse, 39 Derrick Fudge, 57 This what we know about them so far: Jordan Cofer Before the attack, the gunman’s 22-year-old brother, Jordan Cofer, had traveled downtown with Betts and an unidentified “male companion,” who was wounded in the shooting. “She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful person,” Derasha Merrett, who described Oglesby as like family to her, told the Dayton Daily News. “I have cried so much, I can’t cry anymore.” Merrett said Oglesby was a nursing student who had just returned from maternity leave and was working at her child’s day care.