October 15, 1956 - George Hennard
For sixteen years, the Luby's massacre stood as the deadliest mass shooting by a single perpetrator in modern American history, a grim benchmark that shaped subsequent debates over public safety and gun legislation. Hennard's attack was notable for its deliberateness — he rammed his truck through the cafeteria's front window before moving systematically through the dining room — and for the sheer number of casualties in a single, contained space.
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The Luby's shooting, also known as the Luby's massacre, was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991 at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, United States. The perpetrator, 35-year-old George Pierre Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the cafeteria before opening fire, killing 23 people and wounding 27 others. He had a brief shootout with police officers in which he was seriously wounded but refused their orders to surrender and eventually died by suicide.
The shooting was the deadliest mass shooting by a single perpetrator in modern U.S. history until it was surpassed in 2007 by the Virginia Tech shooting.
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