Other Shootings

1949 September 6th - USA, New Jersey, Camden: At 5:20am, Howard Unruh, born 1921 and a decorated tank machine-gunner during World War II, went on a twelve-minute killing rampage in his neighborhood. With an 8-mm Luger, he shot 13 people to death, including 3 children; after going back to his house he surrendered to police and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

1966 August 1st - USA, Texas: Charles J. Whitman strangled and stabbed his mother to death on the evening of July 31st, returned home and killed his wife with a bayonet. The next morning, the attacker went to the top of the Texas Tower, armed with 3 handguns (a 25-mm Galesi-Brescia pistol, a 9-mm Luger pistol, and a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum revolver) and 4 rifles (a Remington 35-mm pump active rifle, a Remington 6-mm bolt-action deer rifle with a scope, a .30 caliber M-a carbine, and a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun.) On his way to the observation deck, he killed three people in the stairwells before starting the snipe attacks at 11:48am. Around 1:20pm, the police officers were able to shoot him. In the end, 17 people were dead (including the attacker, his wife, and mother) and 31 others were injured.

1987 August 19th - Great Britain, Village of Hungerford: Michael Ryan went on a shooting spree in his small hometown fifty miles west of London. He was armed with a 9-mm Beretta pistol, a World War II vintage M-1 carbine, and an AK-47 assault rifle. He started shooting at random people in public, then returned home, killed his mother and dog and followed by setting fire to his own house. Afterwards, he returned to
the streets and continued shooting people. After the shootings, he headed for his childhood grammar school where he shot himself. 17 people (including the assailant) died and sixteen others were injured.

1997 February 23rd. - USA, New York City: at the Empire State Building a shooting rampage by a single man; 7 tourists injured and 1 person died

1998 July 24th. - USA, Washington DC: gunman invades Capitol killing 2 guards

1999 November 1st. - Germany, Bad Reichenhall: a 16-year-old teenager opened fire from his home in the small town of Bad Reichenhall in southern Germany. 4 people died and 6 were injured in front of the adjacent hospital. It took nearly an hour to evacuate the critically injured.

2001 December - India, New Delhi, Parliament: five members of the militant Islamic group Lashker-e-Taiba attacked the parliament building; 15 people, including the 5 attackers, died.

2002 March 27th. - France, Nanterre: a 33-year-old local man waited calmly through a six-hour City Council budget meeting in a working-class suburb of Paris. Witnesses described him as completely normal during the meeting, cleanshaven and dressed tidily. Armed with two Glocks and a .357 Smith & Wesson revolver, he took aim at the nearly 40 officials at the meeting's conclusion. The attacker was eventually wrestled down and taken into police custody. Family members described him as being depressed and a 13-page suicide letter was found at his apartment. 8 people died, 19 others were injured.

2003 July 23rd. - USA, New York City, Manhattan, City Hall: A 31-year old gunman opened fire on a balcony inside City Council Chambers and killed Councilman James Davis who was standing nearby. The council member from Brooklyn was known for his crusade against urban violence.

A plainclothes security officer present in the room responded and shot assailant, wounding him fatally. The attacker managed to bring the weapon through the metal detectors by accompanying the Councilman into the building. This allowed him, like all officials, employees and members of the press to bypass security checks and the metal detector.

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