Today’s Relentless Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Howard Unruh was an unemployed WWII Veteran who lived with his mother in her Camden, New Jersey home. He kept his medals in his bedroom and a firing range in his basement. He didn’t get along well with his neighbors who teased the war hero relentlessly. Unruh began logging a diary with everything he thought his neighbors were saying or doing to him. At 3:00 in the morning on September 6, 1949 he came home from a double feature at the movies to find a gate he had made for the front of his house had been stolen. At 8:00, he woke up, dressed in his brown tropical-worsted suit, white shirt and striped bow tie, then with his mother, he had a breakfast of fried eggs. At 9:20, America’s first mass murderer, left his house with his German Luger, a six inch knife, and six tear gas shells. In only twelve minutes he would shoot and kill 13 people with 14 shots. One of his victims was a young blond boy inside a barbershop on a white carousel horse getting his hair cut. Unruh was pronounced insane and resided at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital until his death on October 19, 2009 at the age of 88. Shortly after his arrest, he was reported to have said to a psychiatrist, “I’m no psycho. I have a good mind. I’d have killed a thousand if I had bullets enough.”
Culled from: Huffington Post
Generously submitted by: Steve O’
He killed 13 with 14 shots? Now, that’s some impressive marksmanship!
He certainly dressed a good deal better than your typical mass shooter of today, who favors Appalachian Hitler Youth Chic or just standard head to toe camouflage.
And when he finally died, hardly anybody even remembered what he did or who he was.