It’s very early to be speculating, but with that being said, there are superficially a few signs and symptoms that Connor Betts was an INCEL and/or identified with the INCEL cause.
Below left is a screengrab from his Twitter feed. As can be seen on the right, the “normie” term is associated with INCEL jargon and subculture, although it should be emphasized it’s not only associated with the INCEL groupology.
Nikolas Cruz, the Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, also identified as an INCEL and this message [note the date] was attributed to him. He also used the term “normie”.
A cursory glance at Betts’ social media seems to confirm a sad sack single dude who is only with a girl when his mother photographs him with his sister.
Although the INCEL aspect may be part of Betts’ social psychology, perhaps even a significant part, he also demonstrated group affiliations with socialists, atheists, satanists and some Democratic Party politicians.
His Twitter feed [which has recently been scrubbed] overall is so all over the place as to be virtually incoherent. The TCRS assessment at this point is that the INCEL aspect is a significant part of the pathopsychology. The nature of the shooting, specifically the location [the outside of a bar on Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning] and the targeting of his own younger sister and her boyfriend, also fits the profile.
You know, I think this is a really good point and something I’ve never thought of as far as young male mass shooters. Older ones seem to be mad at the world in general or work, whereas younger ones seem to motivated not largely by not getting laid (and blaming women for it instead of working on themselves.) Elliot Rogers did this entirely for this reason if you can stand to listen to his journals, and the Columbine guys each wrote in their journals about this.
What I don’t understand abt the incel thing, and maybe someone can help-I thought it was all about regaining control and choosing to be celibate, like it should be “voluntary celibate.” Otherwise why are you proud to just be a guy who can’t get laid? Cause they seem proud, mad, and extremely entitled (I have no personality whatsoever but the head cheerleader won’t have sex with me? Everyone should die!)