[NYPOST] Ohio mass shooter Benjamin Jones spouted white supremacist conspiracy theories and had been admitted to a hospital for mental health evaluations three times in the past two years, a source revealed to The Post.Jones, 20 — who turned a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun on himself after opening fire at a Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, on Monday, injuring four shoppers — also never attended public school, and hung a Nazi flag on the wall behind his bed, according to the source.
"There were warning signs and red flags," the source told The Post a day after the shooting, as the first pictures of the suspect emerged, showing him sporting long, shaggy brown locks and scruffy facial hair.
"He talked about right-wing conspiracy theories, that the Holocaust didn’t happen, 9/11 didn’t happen; he’d started talking about white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts
individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
stuff."
A man and three women — one of whom remains at death's door — were maimed in the shooting, which came a day after a murder-suicide in the parking lot of an Alaska Walmart.
Jones killed himself before he could be apprehended, and his motives were unclear. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the source, who was close to him, painted a portrait of a troubled young man who was "not socialized" and had only attended online Christian school.
"He had been to the hospital three times over the last two years on 72-hour mental evaluations. His mother had him put in [the hospital] once, then he put himself in," the insider said, adding that Jones lived with his mother.
"We thought that would be a red flag to authorities, nobody thought he could get a gun, but he’d talked about getting hold of one."
It was unclear how Jones obtained his firearm.
Under federal law, anyone who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution is prohibited from buying a firearm.