1984 Palm Sunday massacre

Palm Sunday massacre
Location40°40′42″N 73°52′10″W / 40.678203°N 73.869449°W / 40.678203; -73.869449
1080 Liberty Avenue
East New York, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DateApril 15, 1984 (1984-04-15)
Attack type
Mass shooting, mass murder, home invasion
WeaponsTwo handguns (.22-caliber pistol, .38-caliber revolver)
Deaths11 (including an unborn child)
Injured0
PerpetratorChristopher Thomas
ConvictionsFirst degree manslaughter (10 counts)
Second degree criminal possession of a weapon

The Palm Sunday massacre was a mass shooting which took place on April 15, 1984, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. It resulted in the deaths of ten people: two women, two teenage girls, and six children. There was one survivor, an infant girl.