March 3, 1962 - Juan Covington
Covington's case sits at the intersection of severe mental illness and prolonged violence, with a seven-year span of shootings across Philadelphia neighborhoods before he was apprehended. His paranoid schizophrenia drove the attacks, making his crimes less a matter of calculated predation than of untreated delusion — a distinction that complicates, without diminishing, the weight of three deaths.
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Juan Edward Covington (born March 3, 1962) is an American serial killer responsible for at least five shootings in neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1998 to 2005, three of which were fatal. Motivated by delusions brought on from his paranoid schizophrenia, Covington was convicted and given three life terms which he is serving to this day.
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