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JEight student nurses are stabbed or strangled in a Chicago dormitory. Christopher Thomas is convicted of first-degree manslaughter, the judge citing ″extreme emotional disturbance.″ A relative, James Ruppert, is convicted of two killings and found innocent by reason of insanity in nine others.ĪPTen people, including eight children, are killed in a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment on Palm Sunday. MAEleven people, including eight children, are killed at a family gathering in Hamilton, Ohio, on Easter Sunday. George Banks, 43, is later convicted on 12 counts of murder and sentenced to death. Students became heroes that day, risking their lives to drag the wounded to cover while the police. By the time Whitman was finished, according to the Texas State Historical Association, hed killed 17 people and wounded 31 others. 25, 1982 - Twelve people, including five children, are killed in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township, Pa. The mass murderers first shot was through the belly of a pregnant student. Howard Unruh, who told police, ″I’d have killed a thousand if I’d had enough bullets,″ was found insane and committed to a mental institution. 5, 1949 - Thirteen people are fatally shot in 12 minutes in Camden, N.J. Willie Mak and Benjamin Ng are later convicted of murder. 19, 1983 - Thirteen people are fatally shot in the head during a robbery at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown section. After police sharpshooters arrive, Sherrill kills himself.įEB. 20, 1986 - Fourteen people are shot to death at a post office in Edmond, Okla., by Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who authorities say was about to be fired. Most are hit by sniper fire after he climbs to the top of a campus tower at the University of Texas. 1, 1966 - Sixteen people are killed in Austin, Texas, by Charles Whitman.