Vester Flanagan – (Virginia news crew shooting, 2015) – snuck up on WDBJ-TV news reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, murdering them on live television as they filmed early in the morning outside a shopping center in Moneta, Virginia on August 26, 2015. Flanagan, 41, a former WDBJ reporter, also shot and injured Vicki Gardner, whom Parker was interviewing when they were …
Category: Work place shootings
Joseph Wesbecker – Standard Gravure shooting (1989)
Joseph Wesbecker (Standard Gravure shooting, 1989) – opened fire at Standard Gravure Corporation, a printing plant where he once worked, killing eight people and injuring 12 more in Louisville, Kentucky on September 14, 1989. Wesbecker, 47, turned the gun on himself after the rampage, committing suicide. Suffering from manic depression, Wesbecker attempted suicide on three occasions before voluntarily committing himself to a psychiatric ward. Wesbecker …
Laurie Wasserman Dann – The Laurie Dann Spree (1988)
Laurie Wasserman Dann (The Laurie Dann Spree 1988) – set fire to the house where she worked as a baby sitter before traveling to Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, shooting six children, killing one and wounding a 20-year old man in a nearby house in which she barricaded herself in before committing suicide on May 20, 1988. Dann, 30, was also accused of …