Beavercreek Walmart shooter: How someone can be pink slipped and buy a gun

Dec. 10—The man who shot four people at a Beavercreek Walmart on Nov. 20 purchased his weapon just two days before the shooting, raising questions of how he was able to purchase the gun if he had been "pink-slipped" twice last year for suicidal ideation. Benjamin Charles Jones, 20, of Dayton, shot four adults at approximately 8:35 p.m. before turning the gun on himself, dying by suicide. The …