| Queen Street massacre | |
|---|---|
 Surveillance camera photo of Frank Vitkovic during the shooting | |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°48′51.3″S 144°57′36.4″E / 37.814250°S 144.960111°E |
| Date | 8 December 1987 4:22–4:27 p.m. |
Attack type | Mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Sawn-off M1 carbine |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 5 |
| Perpetrator | Frank Vitkovic |
The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria.
Frank Vitkovic, a former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with an illegally modified M1 carbine, killing eight and injuring five. After being disarmed, he crawled from an 11th-floor window and died on impact.