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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 18, 1991
Anger at women may have led to murders
The Associated Press
KILLEEN, Texas — The gunman who massacred 22 people in a barrage of semiautomatic gunfire may have been motivated by a fury against women, authorities said yesterday. And they said the gunman saved one final bullet for himself.
Much remained a mystery about what caused George Hemann, one day after his 35th birthday, to drive his truck through a plate-glass window at Luby's Cafeteria, jump out and methodically execute coviencing victims. It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Of 23 people wounded, at least 11 remained hospitalized yesterday, two in critical condition.
Fourteen of the dead were women. Residents of this central Texas town
suggested Hennard was angry at women, citing a letter he had written last summer that referred to "treacherous female vipers" and his comments during the rampage.
"He had an evident problem with women for some reason," Police Chief F.L. Giacomozzi said.
As Heonard shot customers, he said: "Tell me, it worth it it was! 'til those f—ing women in Belton see this"* according to Luby's customer, Susan Robinson-Hester, who escaped unhurt.
Gun-control advocates seized on the massacre to try to sway a crucial vote in Washington, where the House was debating a crime bill. But the bill, which would have restricted the high-capacity ammunition clips used in the guns, was defeated.
- March 25, 1990 - Eighty-seven people are killed in an arson fire at the Happy Land social club in the Bronx, New York. Julio Gonzalez is convicted of 174 counts of murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Recent mass murders
Here is a list of some of the worst mass murders in recent U.S. history prior to Wednesday's shootings at a cafeteria in Killeen, Texas:
- June 18, 1990 - Nine people are killed and four wounded when James Edward Pough shoots people at random in GMAC's Baymeadows office before killing himself.
- *Jan. 17, 1989* - Patrick Purdy, a 24-year old drifter, opens fire on a Stockton, California schoolyard with an AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifle. Five children are killed and 30 people are wounded before Purdy kills himself.
- Sept. 14, 1989 - Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman on leave for mental illness, kills eight people and wounds twelve others at a printing plant in Louisville, Kentucky. He then kills himself.
- Feb. 15, 1988 - Seven people are killed and five are wounded at ESL Corporation. A former employee, Richard Wade Farley,39, of San Jose, Calif., is convicted Oct. 1, 1991 of seven counts of first degree murder. Authorities said Farley was fired for harassing a woman employee. The woman was among those injured.
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Source. The Associated Press
Texas slaying does not affect vote on gun ban
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House rejected a proposed ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and large ammunition clips yesterday, spurring the appeals of gun-control advocates who used the Texas shooting ramage for their case.
By 247-177, the lawmakers voted to strike from a broad anti-crime bill a provision that would have banned 13 models of assault-style weapons, along with 17-round magazines used by the gunman Wednesday to slay 22 people and himself in a Killeen, Texas, cafeteria.
Supporters of the gun control measure had taken heart when
Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas,
announced that the massacre in a cafeteria in his home district had drop his long-standing opposition
But gun control opponents noted that the proposed list of weapons that would be banned did not include models of pistols the gunman used.
"This is a feel-good measure," said Rep. James Sensebrenner, R-Wis. "It is not going to affect in any way, shape or form."
White house representatives expressed sympathy for the victims in Texas but said President Bush was not changing his stance on gun controls.
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