Ohio Republican Leader Calls on Lawmaker to Resign Over Comments About Dayton Mass Shooting

The firearm used by the shooter Connor Betts, 22, is projected on a screen during a press conference about a mass shooting that left left multiple people dead and 26 injured along the 400 block of E. Fifth Street, in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 4, 2019. Albert Cesare/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP

The leader of the Ohio Republican Party said that state Rep. Candice Keller, a Republican, should resign over her comments in the wake of the Aug. 4 mass shooting in Dayton.

Keller said on Facebook after the attack that she wanted to “place the blame where it belongs.”