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The James Huberty McDonalds Massacre

July 25, 2009

The James Huberty McDonalds Massacre happened 25 years ago at in San Ysidro, an enclave of San Diego, California. It was on July 18, 1984 at around 3:40 p.m. when James Huberty was an unemployed welder and security guard, carried a long-barreled Uzi semiautomatic rifle, a pump-action shotgun and a handgun into McDonald’s and kept on shooting for 77 minutes until a police sniper on a nearby rooftop ended the siege with a bullet through Huberty’s heart.

There were 21 civilians who were found dead lying inside and outside the McDonald’s restaurant; a grandmothers, an infant, children on bicycles and teenage McDonald’s employees and 19 others were wounded.

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