| Luby's shooting | |
|---|---|
 Location of Killeen, Texas | |
| Location | Killeen, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 31°05′37″N 97°43′26″W / 31.09361°N 97.72389°W |
| Date | October 16, 1991 12:39–12:51 p.m.[1] |
| Target | Customers and staff at a Luby's cafeteria, particularly women; first responders |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder-suicide, shootout, femicide, vehicle ramming attack |
| Weapons | Semi-automatic pistols: |
| Deaths | 24 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 27 |
| Perpetrator | George Pierre Hennard |
| Motive | Inconclusive (predominant theory is misogyny; others include misanthropy, rejection, and isolation) |
The Luby's shooting, also known as the Luby's massacre, was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991, at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. The perpetrator, George Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the restaurant before opening fire, killing 23 people and wounding 27 others. Hennard had a brief shootout with police in which he was seriously wounded but refused their orders to surrender and eventually killed himself.
The shooting was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, until it was surpassed in 2007 by the Virginia Tech shooting.[2][3]
- ^ Jankowski, Philip (October 16, 2011). "Survivors reflect on Oct. 16, 1991, Luby's shooting". Killeen Daily Herald. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ Mass Murderers. True Crime. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0783500041. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
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- ^ "Deadliest Mass Shootings in Modern US History Fast Facts". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2019.