Spree killer
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A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous rampage. This is a slightly ambiguous term, with similarities to mass murderer and serial killer.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." Serial killers are different in that they have cooling off periods between attacks, while mass murderers typically stick to one location.
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Spree killers
- Howard Unruh (1949)
- Charles Starkweather (1958)
- Charles Whitman (1966)
- James Oliver Huberty (the McDonald's massacre, 1984)
- Michael Robert Ryan (the Hungerford massacre, 1987)
- Julian Knight (the Hoddle Street massacre, 1987)
- Marc Lépine (the École Polytechnique massacre, 1989)
- Julio Gonzalez (the Happyland Fire, 1990)
- David Gray (the Aramoana massacre, 1990)
- Valery Fabrikant (1992)
- Colin Ferguson (1993)
- William Kreutzer Jr. (The Fort Bragg incident, 1995)
- Thomas Hamilton (the Dunblane massacre, 1996)
- Martin Bryant (the Port Arthur massacre, 1996)
- Andrew Cunanan (1997)
- Carl Drega (1997)
- Mark O. Barton (1999)
- Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (1999)
- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine High School massacre, 1999)
- Prince Dipendra of Nepal (2001)
- Nikolay Soltys (2001)
- Friedrich Leibacher (2001)
- Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt, streets of Tours, Indre-et-Loire, (2001)
- Robert Steinhäuser (the Erfurt massacre, 2002)
- The Beltway Snipers (2002)
- The West Virginia sniper (2003)
- Bart Ross, Chicago, Illinois, (2005)
- Brian Nichols, courtroom shooting, Atlanta, Georgia (2005)
- Terry Ratzmann, churchyard shooting, Wisconsin, (2005)
- Jeff Weise, school shooting, Red Lake Chippewa Reservation, Minnesota (2005)
- Aaron Kyle Huff, house party shooting, Seattle, Washington (the Capitol Hill massacre, 2006)
In many countries the actions of spree killers have been catalysts for change in gun control policy. This has been primarily through additional laws restricting gun ownership for private citizens.
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See also
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Further reading
- Pantziarka, P. 2000, Lone Wolf, Virgin Publishing ISBN 0753504375. This book looks at individual cases, including Thomas Hamilton, Martin Bryant and Mark Barton. It also discusses the wider social context, psychological factors and political fall-out from spree killing.
- Helen Zahavi, Dirty Weekend (fiction)fr:Tuerie