Y is for San Ysidro McDonald's massacre

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This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre)


The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Diego neighborhood of San Ysidro on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.

At approximately 3:56 p.m. on July 18, the perpetrator drove his black Mercury Marquis sedan into the parking lot of the McDonald's restaurant on San Ysidro Boulevard. In his possession were a 9mm Browning HP semi-automatic pistol, a 9mm Uzi carbine, a Winchester 1200 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, and a cloth bag filled with hundreds of rounds of ammunition for each weapon. A total of 50 customers were present inside the restaurant.

The details are painful to read.  The shooter methodically shot patrons, including those trying to hide, including children. Some minutes later, a SWAT sniper perched on a roof obtained an unobstructed view of the shooter  from the neck down for a few seconds; he fired a single round, killing him.

The incident had lasted for 78 minutes, during which time the perpetrator fired a minimum of 245 rounds of ammunition, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others, one of whom died the following day. Seventeen of the victims were killed inside the restaurant and four in the immediate vicinity.

Killed:
Elsa Herlinda Borboa-Fierro (19)
Neva Denise Caine (22)
Michelle Deanne Carncross (18)
María Elena Colmenero-Silva (19)
Gloria López González (22)
Blythe Regan Herrera (31)
Mateo Herrera (11)
Paulina Aquino López (21)
Margarita Padilla (18)
Claudia Perez (9)
Jose Rubén Lozano Perez (19)
Carlos Reyes (8 months)
Jackie Lynn Wright Reyes (18)
Victor Maxmillian Rivera (25)
Arisdelsi Vuelvas Vargas (31)
Hugo Luis Velazquez Vasquez (45)
Laurence Herman Versluis (62)
David Flores Delgado (11)
Omarr Alonso Hernandez (11)
Miguel Victoria Ulloa (74)
Aida Velazquez Victoria (69)

19 other people were injured, some seriously.

Remember the victims.

Viridian