Stephen Marshall | |
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| Born | Stephen Alexander Marshall August 9, 1985 |
| Died | April 16, 2006 (aged 20) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide by gunshot |
| Known for | Murdering convicted sex offenders |
| Motive | Undetermined by police,[1] vigilantism[2] |
| Details | |
| Date | April 15–16, 2006 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Maine |
| Target(s) | Maine inhabitants on the sex offender registry |
| Killed | Joseph Gray and William Elliott, both convicted sex offenders |
| Weapons | .45 automatic handgun .22 caliber handgun rifle (all stolen from father) |
Date apprehended | Committed suicide before apprehension |
Stephen Alexander Marshall (August 9, 1985 – April 16, 2006) was a 20-year-old American-Canadian man who travelled from Nova Scotia to Maine with the intention of shooting and killing convicted sex offenders in an act of vigilantism. Using the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders retrieved through searching publicly available sex offender registries in the United States, Marshall drove to the houses of two convicted sex offenders and killed them, before later shooting and killing himself in Boston, Massachusetts as police were stopping the bus he was on.
- ^ Tutton, Michael (3 November 2006). "Police report casts new light on man who shot sex offenders". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "How Sex Offender Registries Can Result in Vigilante Murder". www.vice.com. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-11-23.