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Shooter charles whitman9/6/2023 People who were there that day didn’t know how to react – the thought that someone would show up in a public place and kill people, seemingly at random, was foreign to them. They weren’t hugging each other, or anything like that. They were mesmerized,” said Spelce, who covered the massacre live from just outside the sniper’s view. When two cops shot Whitman dead on the UT Austin observation deck, the scene 27 floors below was silent, broadcaster Neal Spelce told The Austin American-Statesman. Ann High School graduate, a 25-year-old architect and engineering student, a husband - and a former Marine sniper. Whitman was the eldest son of a Lake Worth plumbing contractor, a St. 1, 1966, this grisly tally was incomprehensible.Ĭharles J. Intense scrutiny of the murderer.Īmericans today don’t have to reach far in their memories to tick off rampage after rampage: Forty-nine dead at an Orlando nightclub, 14 dead in San Bernardino, 28 dead at Sandy Hook, 33 dead at Virginia Tech. Related: A new kind of madness - The University of Texas tower shooting, 50 years later Whitman to terrorize the campus, the world changed. The unthinkable has somehow become routine in the 50 years since a young man from Lake Worth lugged a trunk full of guns and ammunition to a perch atop the University of Texas tower and picked off 46 people, killing 14 of them, wounding 32, and traumatizing a nation. PBS is airing a documentary on the tragedy, called Tower, at 10 p.m. The 50-year anniversary of the Texas tower rampage was on Aug.
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