Murder of the Lawson family

Murder of the Lawson family
Lawson family portrait. Left to right: (Top) Arthur (19), Marie (17), Charles (43), Fannie (37) holding baby Mary Lou; (Bottom) James (4), Maybell (7), Raymond (2), Carrie (12).
Location	Germanton, North Carolina, U.S.
Date	December 25, 1929; 94 years ago (1929-12-25)
Attack type	Massacre Murder-suicide mass shooting
Deaths	8 (including the perpetrator)
Perpetrator	Charles Davis Lawson (the father)

The murder of the Lawson family refers to a familicide which took place on December 25, 1929, in Germanton, North Carolina, United States, in which sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.