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Another term, '''rampage killer''', has sometimes been used to describe spree killers, but it does not differentiate between mass murderers and spree killers. |
Another term, '''rampage killer''', has sometimes been used to describe spree killers, but it does not differentiate between mass murderers and spree killers. |
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A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."[1]
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the general definition of spree murder is two or more murders committed by an offender or offenders, without a cooling-off period; the lack of a cooling-off period marking the difference between a spree murder and a serial murder. The category has, however, been found to be of no real value to law enforcement, because of definitional problems relating to the concept of a "cooling-off period".[2] Serial killers are different in that the murders are clearly separate events, happening at different times, while the attacks of mass murderers are defined by one incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders.[2]
Another term, rampage killer, has sometimes been used to describe spree killers, but it does not differentiate between mass murderers and spree killers.
List of spree killings
Incident | Location | Year | Killer | Victims Killed | Notes |
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2011 Norway attacks | Norway | 2011 | Anders Behring Breivik (alleged) | 87+ | At around 15:30 local time, Anders Behring Breivik allegedly detonated a car bomb outside the government building of the Norwegian capital of Oslo, killing 7 people. Breivik apparently then made his way to the youth meeting of the Norwegian Labour Party on the island of Utøya where, dressed as a police officer, he is believed to have shot more than 80 of the around 600 persons on the island to death. |
Tsuyama massacre | Japan | 1938 | Mutsuo Toi | 30 | Using a shotgun and swords, Toi killed 30 in an hour and a half before killing himself.[3] |
Cook killings | United States | 1951 | Billy Cook | 6 | Cook murdered six people between Missouri and California on a 22-day rampage before being arrested in Mexico. He was executed at San Quentin prison gas chamber on December 22, 1952.[4] |
Starkweather/Fugate murders | United States | 1958 | Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate | 11 | Starkweather and his adolescent girlfriend Fugate murdered 10 people over the course of eight days before being apprehended by police. Starkweather was executed in the electric chair at Nebraska State Penitentiary in 1959. Fugate was imprisoned until 1976. |
University of Texas at Austin massacre | United States | 1966 | Charles Whitman | 14 | Whitman, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, killed 14 people and wounded 31 others as part of a shooting rampage from the observation deck of the University's 32-story administrative building. He did this shortly after murdering his wife and mother. He was eventually shot and killed by an Austin police officer. |
Colorado Springs killings | United States | 1975 | Freddie Lee Glenn | 5 | Along with accomplice Michael Corbett, Glenn was convicted of murdering three people in 1975; combined, the pair were responsible for a total of five deaths in and around Colorado Springs:[5]
Daniel Van Lone, a 29-year-old cook, Winfred Proffitt, 19, a soldier, and Karen Grammer, an 18-year-old who worked at Red Lobster and the younger sister of actor Kelsey Grammer. |
Uireyeong massacre | South Korea | 1982 | Woo Bum-kon | 57 | Woo, a 27-year-old disgruntled police officer, killed 57 and wounded 35 people using two M2 carbines and hand grenades in an eight-hour rampage before committing suicide. |
The Pozzeto Massacre | Colombia | 1986 | Campo Elías Delgado | 36 | Campo Elías Delgado, a Colombian Vietnam war veteran, killed 30 people with a .32 revolver at the restaurant "Pozzeto", then shot and killed by the Colombian police. Hours before the murder, he killed 6 people in his apartment, including his mother. |
Hoddle Street Massacre | Australia | 1987 | Julian Knight | 7 | Knight murdered 7 people and injured 19 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Victoria. |
Hungerford massacre | United Kingdom | 1987 | Michael Robert Ryan | 16 | Using two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, Ryan killed 16 people and wounded 15 others in a space of 7 hours before shooting himself. |
Tian Mingjian incident | China | 1994 | Tian Mingjian | 23 | Using a Type 81 rifle, Tian killed 23 people near Tiananmen Square on September 20, including an Iranian diplomat and his son. He was finally shot dead by a police sniper. |
Cuers shooting spree | France | 1995 | Eric Borel | 12 | After murdering his mother, stepfather and half-brother the previous day, 16-year-old Borel went on a shooting spree in Cuers shooting dead an additional 12 people before he killed himself. |
Port Arthur massacre | Australia | 1996 | Martin Bryant | 35 | Using an AR-15 and an L1A1 SLR, Bryant killed 35 and injured 21 in five hours before being arrested by the Special Operations Group of the Tasmanian Police. |
Columbine High School massacre | United States | 1999 | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold | 15 | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 15 people including themselves in the Columbine High School. It was the deadliest school shooting in America so far. |
Mdantsane massacre | South Africa | 2002 | Bulelani Vukwana | 11 | Vukwana, 29, killed 11 people and injured 6 in the South African township of Mdantsane after an argument with his girlfriend. |
Beltway sniper attacks | United States | 2002 | John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo | 10 | Muhammad and 17-year old Malvo killed 10 and injured several others over the course of three weeks. Muhammad, who was 41, was executed November 10, 2009. Malvo is currently serving six consecutive life sentences. |
Red Lake massacre | United States | 2005 | Jeff Weise | 9 | Weise shot and killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, both police officers. He then proceeded to a local high school and shot and killed a security guard. Once inside the school Weise shot and killed five students and a teacher before committing suicide. Weise killed 9 and injured 15. |
Virginia Tech massacre | United States | 2007 | Seung-Hui Cho | 32 | Cho, using two pistols, killed 32 in two separate events and then himself in the course of about three hours. |
Geneva County massacre | United States | 2009 | Michael McLendon | 10 | McLendon, a 28-year-old unemployed man, used an SKS rifle, a Bushmaster AR-15 and a .38-caliber handgun to kill 10 people before shooting himself. |
Winnenden school shooting | Germany | 2009 | Tim Kretschmer | 15 | Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former student, used a Beretta 92FS to kill 15 people in two separate locations before shooting himself. |
2010 Appomattox shootings | United States | 2010 | Christopher Speight | 8 | Speight killed eight people in three locations in Appomattox, Virginia with a high-powered rifle over the course of several hours before surrendering to police. |
Cumbria shootings | United Kingdom | 2010 | Derrick Bird | 12 | Bird, a 52-year-old taxi driver, shot dead 12 people in several towns and villages in west Cumbria. He also injured 11 others in a four-hour rampage. Bird took his life with his own gun. |
2010 Bratislava shootings | Slovakia | 2010 | Ľubomír Harman | 8 | Eight people (including the perpetrator) died and 17 were injured after a gunman opened fire armed with a Vz. 58 assault rifle in a suburb of Bratislava, Slovakia. Harman is the first gun-wielding Slovak spree killer. |
Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting | Netherlands | 2011 | Tristan van der Vlis | 7 | Seven people (including the perpetrator) died and 17 were injured after a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. |
2011 Tucson shooting | United States | 2011 | Jared Lee Loughner | 6 | Six people died and 19 were injured after a gunman opened fire Tucson Arizona outside at a table, injuring U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. |
2011 Grand Rapids, Michigan shooting spree | United States | 2011 | Rodrick Dantzler | 8 | Seven people killed in two separate homes and two persons injured by firearms, suspect later killed himself after holding three people hostage in a home. |
See also
References
- ^ Charalambous, Nick, and Meryl Dillman. "No evidence of spree killer yet, police say". The Anderson Independent-Mail (Anderson, South Carolina), December 17, 2006. Accessed 8 July 2008.
- ^ a b Morton, Robert J., and Mark A. Hilts (eds.) Serial Murder — Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Accessed 4 July 2009.
- ^ 津山三十人殺し―日本犯罪史上空前の惨劇 (Akira Tsukuba, 2001) ISBN 4102901280.
- ^ "Billy's Last Words". Time Magazine. 1952-12-22. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
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(help) - ^ Rappold, R. Scott (July 18, 2006). "Convict in brutal 1975 killings may seek parole". The Gazette.
Further reading
- Pantziarka, Pan (2000). Lone Wolf: True Stories of Spree Killers. Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0437-5.