San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
1984 mass shooting
The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was an act of mass murder which happened at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The shooter, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper about 77 minutes after the shooting began.[2][3]
| San Ysidro McDonald's massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of mass shootings in the United States | |
 James Huberty in 1979 | |
| Location | San Ysidro, San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°33′21.2″N 117°03′15.0″W / 32.555889°N 117.054167°W |
| Date | July 18, 1984 c. 4:00 – 5:17 p.m. (PDT (UTC−07:00)) |
| Target | Staff and customers at McDonald's |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 22 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 19 |
| Perpetrator | James Huberty |
| Motive | Inconclusive. Racism. Possible rage, suicidal ideation, and/or revenge[1] |
At the time, the massacre was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.[4]
Huberty was a conspiracy theorist and survivalist, who believed the Cold War was going to end the world and that president Jimmy Carter and, later, Ronald Reagan and the United States government were working against him.[5]
References
change- ↑ Mass Murderers, pp. 113-114.
- ↑ Mass Murderers. True Crime. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0783500041. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
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- ↑ Holguin, Richard (November 16, 1986). "Police Snipers Get Only One Chance to Be on the Mark". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 3, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Deadliest Mass Shootings in Modern US History Fast Facts". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
- ↑ The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications ISBN 978-1-405-13635-8 p. 15
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