Steven Marlow stands accused of murdering 4 people in Butler Township, Ohio on Aug 5th 2022.
Butler Township is an area on the north side of Dayton, Ohio. It's main feature is the I-75 / I-70 interchange and the exit immediately south of that interchange that contains a large area of restaurants and retail establishments. Behind that are some sleepy, middle class neighborhoods. Just down the street you can get into some shadier neighborhoods...the kind I try to avoid as I deliver Doordash orders. Butler township is an area I love to deliver to. Haverstraw street is less than 2 miles from where I live. I have delivered orders to that street. Last Friday (Aug 5, 2022) that calm peaceful street became an immense crime scene.
Steven Marlow, 39, stands accused of murdering 4 people between 2 houses in that neighborhood before fleeing and eventually being apprehended in Kansas. Initial reports I have seen/read says that he had spent time the last few years working in Chicago but for the most part he lived with his parents in that sleepy neighborhood. He had recently gotten off probation for a 2019 for aggravated burglary and aggravated menacing charge. Some articles and/or neighbor statements indicate the strong possibility of mental illness that seemed to be known to others.
More information is coming out in the Police indictment that has said his computer was full of conspiracy theory material and indicated that Marlow believed almost all of his neighbors were terrorist sleeper agents which KINDA explains why he just walked into two nearby houses and shot a mother and her teenage daughter and an elderly couple. I have seen no further info on why he snapped at this time and on these people.
SO once again we have a person radicalized by the conspiracy theory culture that is growing in our midst. Once again a white (which I didnt even need to say) man with violent criminal convictions and seemingly known mental illness somehow had access to a gun (something that has gotten NO MENTION in the news coverage at least as of yet).
The conspiracy and grievance culture promoted by The Former Guy and people like Alex Jones, OWN, Fox News, and more has claimed 4 more innocent lives.
