Palm Sunday massacre | |
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Location | 1080 Liberty Avenue East New York, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[1] |
Coordinates | 40°40′42″N 73°52′10″W / 40.678203°N 73.869449°W |
Date | April 15, 1984 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, home invasion |
Weapons | Two handguns (.22-caliber pistol, .38-caliber revolver)[2] |
Deaths | 10 |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | Christopher Thomas |
Convictions | First degree manslaughter (10 counts) Second degree criminal possession of a weapon |
The Palm Sunday massacre was a mass shooting in Brooklyn, New York, that resulted in the deaths of ten people: two women, two teenage girls, and six children. There was one survivor, an infant girl.[3]