Waddell Buddhist temple shooting

Waddell Buddhist temple shooting
LocationWaddell, Arizona, U.S.
DateAugust 9–10, 1991
Attack type
Mass shooting, mass murder, robbery
Weapons
Deaths9
Injured0
PerpetratorsJohnathan Doody and Allesandro Garcia
MotiveRobbery

In the early hours of August 10, 1991, a mass shooting occurred at Thai Buddhist temple Wat Promkunaram (Thai: วัดพรหมคุณาราม; RTGS: Wat Phrom Khunaram) in Waddell, Arizona, killing nine people. At the time, this was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history, until it was paralleled by the Charleston church shooting in 2015, which also killed nine people,[1] and then superseded by the Sutherland Springs church shooting in Texas in 2017. As of 2024, it is the deadliest mass shooting in Arizona history.[2]

  1. ^ Pulliam Bailey, Sarah (June 18, 2015). "The Charleston shooting is the largest mass shooting in a house of worship since 1991". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2015-06-21. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Vandell, Perry (August 20, 2018). "27 years later, Waddell Buddhist temple commemorates victims of 1991 temple massacre". The Arizona Republic. Archived from the original on 2021-09-19. Retrieved August 15, 2020.