Carlinville, Ill. (1968)
12/18/1968: The public welfare office was the scene of a
planned family reunion party. The father of ten, 35, brought two pistols, shot
to death his wife, a caseworker at whom he had shot some months before, and two
other workers at the agency. He also wounded four of the seven children at the
planned party. The murderer then went to his brother’s house and confessed his
crime. While waiting for police, he left and shot himself to death.
Category: public
Suicide: yes
Cause: unknown
Weapon: pistol[1]
[1]
"Father Of Broken Family Kills Wife, 3 Others, Self," [Brownsville,
Tex.] Brownsville Herald,
Dec. 19, 1968, 10.
If there was no prospect of reunion, this might have a sad logic to it. But this was a family reuniting. There are no indications that he had a mental illness. People do the dumbest things.
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