Luby's shooting
| Luby's shooting | |
|---|---|
The scene at Luby's Cafeteria | |
Location of Killeen, Texas | |
| Location | 31°05′37″N 97°43′26″W / 31.09361°N 97.72389°W Killeen, Texas, U.S. |
| Date | October 16, 1991 12:39 – 12:51 p.m. (CDT; UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Customers and staff at a Luby's Cafeteria, particularly women; first responders |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder–suicide, shootout, mass murder, femicide, vehicle ramming attack |
| Weapons |
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| Deaths | 24 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 27 |
| Perpetrator | George Pierre Hennard |
| Motive | |
The Luby's shooting, also known as the Luby's massacre, was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991 at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, United States. The perpetrator, 35-year-old George Pierre Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the cafeteria before opening fire, killing 23 people and wounding 27 others. He had a brief shootout with police officers in which he was seriously wounded but refused their orders to surrender and eventually died by suicide.
The shooting was the deadliest mass shooting by a single perpetrator in modern U.S. history until it was surpassed in 2007 by the Virginia Tech shooting.