Sunnyvale ESL shooting

Sunnyvale ESL shooting
Sunnyvale ESL shooting
	Perpetrator Richard Farley being escorted by police officers
Location	37°24′41″N 122°00′45″W / 37.4114°N 122.0124°W; Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
Date	February 16, 1988 ; c. 2:50 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (CST)
Target	Former co-workers
Attack type	Mass shooting, workplace shooting, mass murder
Weapons	12-gauge Benelli M1 Riot semi-automatic shotgun; .22-250 Ruger M77 bolt-action rifle w/ scope; 12-gauge Mossberg 500 Pump-action shotgun; .22 WMR Sentinel MK IV revolver; .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver; .380 Browning BDA semi-automatic pistol; 9mm Smith & Wesson pistol; Hunting knife (unused); Smoke bomb (unused);
Deaths	7
Injured	4 (3 by gunfire)
Perpetrator	Richard Wade Farley
Motive	Romantic rejection by stalking victim

On February 16, 1988, a mass shooting occurred at the headquarters of ESL Incorporated in Sunnyvale, California, when 39-year-old Richard Farley shot and killed seven people and wounded four others. A former employee of the company, he stalked his co-worker Laura Black for four years beginning in 1984. Farley was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder and is currently serving a death sentence at California Health Care Facility.