Pozzetto massacre

Pozzetto massacre
Restaurant Pozzetto, the main location of the massacre, in 2013
Native nameMasacre de Pozzetto
LocationBogotá, Colombia
Date4 December 1986 (1986-12-04)
2:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (COT)
Attack type
Mass shooting, stabbing
Weapons
Deaths30 (27 by gunfire including the perpetrator, 3 by stabbing)
Injured11 (10 by gunfire)
PerpetratorCampo Elías Delgado

The Pozzetto massacre was carried out by the same perpetrator at three locations in eastern Bogotá, Colombia on 4 December 1986. Over the course of seven hours, 29 people were killed and 11 others were injured by 52-year-old Campo Elías Delgado.

Delgado first murdered nine people, including his mother, at two apartment buildings, luring some out by triggering the fire alarm system. Afterwards, he went to the upscale Restaurant Pozzetto, where Delgado opened fire on customers and staff, killing 20 people before being shot dead by police. It is currently the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in the country's history.