Monday, January 7, 2013

July 12, 1976

Location: California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California
Victims: Seven
Wounded: Two

Edward Charles Allaway, the 37-year-old custodian of the school library, purchased a semiautomatic rifle at a local Kmart, then killed seven people and wounded two in the lobby of the school library and the media center in the basement before fleeing. Allaway later turned himself in.

Motives: Allaway was diagnosed during a second trial with paranoid schizophrenia  He believed pornographers were forcing his wife to act in films. It is not known if he thought the people he killed were the pornographers or if he believed they were showing the films in the library. He is currently in the Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino.

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