San Ysidro McDonald's massacre

San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
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 murder; mass shooting; shootout;
Weapons	Browning HP (9mm); Semiautomatic Uzi (9mm); Winchester 1200 pump-action shotgun (12 gauge);
Deaths	23 (including the perpetrator and an unborn child)
Injured	19
Perpetrator	James Oliver Huberty
Motive	Inconclusive (possibly rage, suicidal ideation, and/or revenge)

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass murder, which occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper approximately 77 minutes after he had first opened fire.^[3]^[4]^[5]

At the time, the massacre was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed seven years later by the Luby's shooting.^[4] It remains the deadliest mass shooting in California.^[6]

^ Cite error: The named reference sut-aug-2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Mass Murderers, pp. 113-114.
^ Scott, Marvin (July 19, 2014). "Legacy of 1984 McDonald's Massacre: Failure to Control Gun Violence Haunts America 30 Years On". WPIX 11. Archived from the original on July 31, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Rosenblatt, Kalhan (October 2, 2017). "Las Vegas Shooting is Deadliest in Modern U.S. History". NBC News. Retrieved July 31, 2023.

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[2] Mass Murderers, pp. 113-114.

[3] Scott, Marvin (July 19, 2014). "Legacy of 1984 McDonald's Massacre: Failure to Control Gun Violence Haunts America 30 Years On". WPIX 11. Archived from the original on July 31, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2023.

[Mass_Murderers-1993-4] Mass Murderers. True Crime. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0783500041. Retrieved December 3, 2015. huberty.

[5] 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.

[6] Rosenblatt, Kalhan (October 2, 2017). "Las Vegas Shooting is Deadliest in Modern U.S. History". NBC News. Retrieved July 31, 2023.

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