Andrew Kehoe | |
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Born | Andrew Phillip Kehoe February 1, 1872 Tecumseh, Michigan, U.S. |
Died | May 18, 1927 Bath Township, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 55)
Cause of death | Suicide attack |
Occupation(s) | Farmer, school board member and treasurer |
Known for | Perpetrator of the Bath School disaster |
Spouse |
Ellen Agnes "Nellie" Price
(m. 1912; murdered 1927) |
Motive | Inconclusive[b] |
Details | |
Date | May 18, 1927 |
Location(s) | Bath Township, Michigan |
Target(s) | Bath Consolidated School, his house and farm |
Killed | 45 (Including himself)[Note 1] |
Injured | 58 |
Weapons | Explosives: |
Andrew Philip Kehoe (February 1, 1872 – May 18, 1927) was an American mass murderer. Kehoe was a Michigan farmer who became disgruntled after losing reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school board. He murdered his wife and then detonated bombs at the Bath Consolidated School on May 18, 1927, resulting in the Bath School disaster in which 44 people[Note 2] were killed and 58 more people were injured. Kehoe killed himself near the school by detonating dynamite in his truck, killing himself and several other people and wounding more. He had earlier set off incendiary devices in his house and around his farm, destroying all the buildings. The event remains the deadliest act of mass murder at an American school.
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As an example that such mass murderers [pseudocommandoes] have existed long before Whitman [Texas Tower shooter], consider a notorious case, the Bath School disaster of 1927, now long forgotten by most. Andrew Kehoe ...
... seems an early sign of his future psychopathology
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