Active Shooter - NYPD Shield

Location Information: New Orleans Post Office in New Orleans,
Louisiana
Attacker Information: Warren Murphy (39/M)
Casualties: 0 dead; 3 wounded
Number of Weapons: 1
Weapon Information: Shotgun
Closest Relationship to the Victim: Professional
Date Attack Concluded: December 15, 1988
Resolution: No Force
Sources:
1. Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, “Mail Handler Shoots 3 at Post Office,”
December 15, 1988, http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-15/news/mn-524_1_postoffice.
2. Washington Post, “3 Shot in New Orleans as Suspect Holes Up,” December 15,
1988, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1295435.html.
Case #93
December 8, 1987: Frank Vitkovic opened fire on three floors at a post office, killing
eight people.
Number of Attack Locations: 1
Location Information: Post Office in Melbourne, Australia
Attacker Information: Frank Vitkovic (22/M)
Casualties: 8 dead; 0 wounded
Number of Weapons: 1
Weapon Information: Rifle (sawed-off)
Closest Relationship to the Victim: None
Date Attack Concluded: Same day
Resolution: Force
Sources:
1. The Age, “Melbourne Remembers Queen Street Massacre,” December 6, 2007,
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Melbourne-remembers-Queen-Stmassacre/2007/12/06/1196812912743.html.
2. Kenneth Polk, When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 137.
Case #94
August 19, 1987: Michael Ryan opened fire during a shooting spree, killing 16 people
and wounding 15 others. Ryan’s attack began in Wiltshire where he shot a woman in a
forest and a cashier at a gas station. The assailant then killed his mother and fired
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