Dayton, Ohio, shooting: Beatrice 'Nicole' Warren-Curtis died with friend on night out

Mourners embrace near a makeshift memorial outside a bar in the Oregon District, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. The area was the scene of a mass shooting the previous day.

Credit: John Minchillo/AP

Credit: John Minchillo/AP

Mourners embrace near a makeshift memorial outside a bar in the Oregon District, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. The area was the scene of a mass shooting the previous day.

Beatrice "Nicole" Warren-Curtis, 36, was in Dayton, Ohio's Oregon District Saturday evening with her friend, Monica Brickhouse, when a gunman opened fire.

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"To lose a loved one to senseless violence is just unfair, especially since it could have been prevented," a friend, whose name was not published, told WHIO-TV.Both Warren-Curtis and Brickhouse died in the massacre.

At least 26 others were injured and the suspected shooter, Connor Betts, 24, of Bellbrook, was killed by police less than a minute after he opened fire. Warren-Curtis was one of nine people who died in addition to the suspected shooter.

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