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.
In the time leading up to the shooting, Pough was living in a rundown duplex in Jacksonville. He was described as a recluse with no friends by relatives. Neighbours said he would engage in heated arguments with people about money and his car which had been repossessed by the GMAC he would later target during his shooting spree. His mother died three years prior to the shooting which Pough was to have said he had nothing left to live for and that he wanted to "take someone with him when he leaves this world". In addition, his wife separated from him and filed a restraining order against Pough after he twice threatened to kill her.
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