![]() Though he had problems with his parents, she knew him to like his sister, who was among those killed. When Johnson got a text from a friend who also knew Betts after the shooting asking if she thought he could be the gunman, she didn’t think it was possible. She said she knew she had to break things off, without her own capacity “to be his therapist.” When she pushed him to explain, she said he spoke of “uncontrollable urges to do things,” including a time he set fire to an abandoned building. ![]() That time, Johnson said, he tried to downplay it as a joke, but she knew it wasn’t. ![]() In March or April, on the road in Illinois for a gig with his heavy-metal band, she said a drunk and slurring Betts called her and said something about how “he wanted to hurt a lot of people.” Later, in May, Johnson said Betts was planning to leave a letter at the home of an ex-girlfriend that warned her, “You can’t outrun your past.”
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