San Ysidro McDonald's massacre

San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
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 ; 39 years ago ; 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	Browning HP ( 9mm ) ; Semiautomatic Uzi ( 9mm ) ; Winchester 1200 pump-action shotgun ( 12 gauge ) ;
Deaths	22 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	19
Perpetrator	James Huberty
Motive	Inconclusive. Racism. Possible rage , suicidal ideation , and/or revenge

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]

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 | change source ]

↑ Mass Murderers , pp. 113-114.
↑ Mass Murderers . True Crime. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0783500041 . Retrieved December 3, 2015 . huberty.
↑ 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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[1] Mass Murderers , pp. 113-114.

[Mass_Murderers-1993-2] Mass Murderers . True Crime. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0783500041 . Retrieved December 3, 2015 . huberty.

[3] 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 .

[4] "Deadliest Mass Shootings in Modern US History Fast Facts" . CNN . Retrieved September 24, 2019 .

[5] The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications ISBN 978-1-405-13635-8 p. 15

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