February 16, 1948 - James Edward Pough
Over two days in June 1990, Pough carried out a sequence of violence that culminated in a mass shooting at a GMAC finance office in Jacksonville, killing nine people there and eleven in total across both attacks. For more than two decades, the GMAC office shooting stood as the deadliest single mass shooting by a lone gunman in Florida history.
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James Edward "Pop" Pough (February 16, 1948 – June 18, 1990) was an American spree killer who killed eleven people in two separate attacks in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 17 and 18, 1990. Pough shot and killed two people at random on Jacksonville's Northside, wounded two teenagers, and robbed a convenience store. Pough shot and killed nine people and wounded four others at a General Motors Acceptance Corporation (now Ally Financial) car loan office the next day before committing suicide.
At the time, the shooting at the GMAC office was the deadliest single mass shooting committed by a lone gunman in Florida history, and was later surpassed by the Orlando nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016, in which 49 people were killed.
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