Luigi's Restaurant shooting

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Luigi's Restaurant shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States
Location Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Coordinates 35°04′37″N78°57′14″W / 35.0769°N 78.9539°W / 35.0769; -78.9539
DateAugust 6, 1993 (1993-08-06) (UTC−04:00)
Attack type
 Mass shooting, mass murder, hate crime
Weapons
Deaths4
Injured8 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorKenneth Junior French
MotiveOpposition to President Bill Clinton lifting the ban on homosexuals to serve in the military

On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film Licensed to Kill. [1] [2]

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Shooting

At around 10 p.m., French drove to the restaurant in a black truck. Wearing shorts and a fishing vest, French exited the truck carrying a pump-action shotgun. French then entered the restaurant through the kitchen at the back of the building and then began to yell about politics and homosexuality before opening fire indiscriminately, raising the death toll to four and the injured to seven. He was then shot and wounded by a police officer who was not on duty at the time of the shooting. [3] [4] [5]

Victims

The victims that were killed were:

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References

  1. ↑ "Soldier Kills 4 People and Hurts 6 In a Restaurant in North Carolina". The New York Times. 8 August 1993. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  2. ↑ "PHOTOS: 25th anniversary of the Luigi's restaurant shooting". The Fayetteville Observer. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Army Sergeant on Rampage Kills 4, Hurts 7". Los Angeles Times . 8 August 1993.
  4. ↑ "4 Killed, 7 Hurt when Gunman Opens Fire in N.c. Restaurant". 8 August 1993.
  5. ↑ "Case 2: Kenneth Junior French | High School Curriculum on the Death Penalty". deathpenaltycurriculum.org.


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