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Restaurant Shootings

1984 July 18th - USA, California, San Ysidro: James Huberty, born in 1942
in Ohio, walked into a McDonald's restaurant around 4pm. Armed with a
Browning P-35 Hi-Power 9mm pistol, a Winchester 1200 pump-action 12-gauge
shotgun, and an Israeli Military Industrial 9-mm Model A carbine (U2), he
ordered everybody on the ground. Then he started indiscriminately
shooting at children and adults. At 5:10pm, police officers were able to
shoot the assailant. 22 people (including the attacker) died and 19
others were injured.

1991 October 16th - USA, Texas, Killeen, Luby's Restaurant: George
Hennard drove his light Ford pickup truck through the front window of the
cafeteria, got out of the vehicle, and started shooting people execution
style. He was armed with two pistols, a Glock 17 semiautomatic and a
Ruger P89. After being shot and wounded by a police officer, the
assailant shot himself to death. 24 people (including the attacker) died and 20 others were injured.

1996 April 28th - Australia, Island of Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic
Site, Broad Arrow Café: Around 1:30, 28-year-old Martin Bryant started a
shooting spree. Using two military weapons, a self-loading AR-15 rifle
and a SKS assault rifle, he killed twenty people and injured 15 others
inside the café. Outside he continued the rampage including shooting at
little children at point-blank range. In the end, 35 people were dead
and 18 others were wounded.

2000 March 1st. - USA, Pennsylvania, Wilkinsburg: an attacker went on a racially motivated shooting rampage targeting at his apartment building and two nearby fast food restaurants; 3 people died and 2 others were injured.

The attacker surrendered after a standoff at an office building. Police later found anti-white and anti-Jewish writings in his apartment. All the shooting victims were white. In April a judge ruled that the assailant was incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be placed in a state hospital for treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. In August the attacker was found competent to stand trial as long as he keeps taking his medication.