January 21, 1921 - Howard Unruh
His attack on the morning of September 6, 1949, lasted just twelve minutes and covered a single city block — yet it produced a casualty toll that shocked postwar America and drew immediate national attention. The concentrated, methodical nature of the violence, moving door to door through a familiar neighborhood, distinguished it from other crimes of the era and established Unruh as a pivotal case in the early study of mass violence. His subsequent diagnosis and indefinite institutionalization meant he never stood trial, raising questions about accountability that the legal system of the time had few tools to address.
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Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people and injured three others during a twelve-minute walk through a one-block span of his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949. The incident, which became known as the "Walk of Death" and the "Camden shootings", ended after Unruh surrendered to police after running out of ammunition.
Diagnosed as being legally insane and thus immune to criminal prosecution, Unruh was committed at the New Jersey State Hospital. He died at this facility in 2009 at the age of 88 following over 60 years of confinement.
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