10-03-2017, 06:48 PM
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see you later, I'm gone
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 14,060
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Originally Posted by cosis
This guy was the ultimate coward. At least with other mass shootings the suspects were at their victims level. This guy was hundreds of yard away picking people off from hundreds of feet in the air.
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University of Texas tower shooting
Attack type
School shooting, mass shooting, familicide, matricide, uxoricide, mass murder, stabbing
Weapons
Remington 700 ADL (6mm)
Universal M1 carbine
Remington Model 141 (.35-caliber)
Sears model 60 Semi-automatic shotgun (12 gauge)
S&W Model 19 (.357 Magnum)
Luger P08 (9mm)
Galesi-Brescia (.25 ACP)
Knife
Deaths 18 (including Whitman and an unborn child)
Non-fatal injuries 31
Perpetrator Charles Whitman
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, a former Marine sharpshooter, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire on persons indiscriminately on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed fifteen people including one unborn child and injured thirty-one others; another victim died in the hospital and the final victim died from the lingering effects of his wounds in 2001, but his death was ruled a homicide. The incident ended when police reached Whitman and shot him dead.
Before going to the campus Whitman had killed his mother and wife. It has been suggested that his violent impulses, with which he had been struggling for years, were due to a tumor found in his brain on autopsy.
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