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The James Huberty McDonalds Massacre

July 25, 2009 // 2 Comments »

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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