San Ysidro rampage

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The San Ysidro rampage , also known as the McDonald's massacre , occurred on July 18, 1984 in San Ysidro , a neighborhood of San Diego , California , USA . 41-year-old James Huberty shot 21 people and injured 19 others in a McDonald’s branch before he was shot by police. The act is one of the most casualties in the history of the United States.

Perpetrator

James Oliver Huberty was born on October 11, 1942 in Canton , Ohio . He suffered from polio and had a walking defect until his death. He spent his childhood with his parents on a farm in Pennsylvania . After college, he went to the Pittsburgh Institute of the Mortuary Science , where he met Etna, whom he married in 1965. After the birth of their two daughters Zelia and Cassandra, they moved together to Massillon, Ohio, where Huberty worked as a mortician. In 1971, however, their house burned down and Huberty and his family moved back to his native Canton, where he found a job as a welder. Due to a motorcycle accident, he retained an uncontrollable twitch in his right hand, whereupon he lost his job. In early 1984, Huberty and his family moved to San Ysidro and found a job as a security guard, which he lost again in early July of the same year. The day before the massacre, Huberty called a mental health clinic for help; however, since he was not seen as an emergency, he was turned away.

Rampage

On Wednesday, July 18, 1984, he visited the San Diego Zoo with his wife and children and had lunch with them at McDonald's before they drove home. Shortly afterwards, after his wife asked him where he was going, he is said to have left the house with the words: "Hunting people". The armed Huberty was noticed by a local resident on San Ysidro Boulevard , who notified the police. However, since the officer who took the call had noted the wrong address, the police officers who had been alerted searched in vain for him.

Against 15:40 Huberty entered with an Uzi , a pump action and a pistol of the type Browning Hi-Power , the location just half a block away from his home McDonald's restaurant and opened indiscriminate fire on the 50 there present people. He fired 257 rounds in 77 minutes, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others. Among those killed were the manager, three employees, an eight-month-old baby, a nine-year-old girl, three eleven-year-old boys and twelve adults between 18 and 74 years of age.

Huberty was shot dead at around 5 p.m. by a SWAT sniper positioned on the roof of a donut shop across the street.

After the rampage

Huberty's wife filed a lawsuit after her husband's death, stating that a “chemical reaction” had taken place in her husband's body, caused by the lead and potassium monosodium glutamate in McDonald’s food , which Huberty called through his former work Welder had charged. This is said to have caused the rampage. However, the lawsuit was dismissed.

The McDonald's branch in which the massacre took place was demolished and a new branch was opened on the same street. In place of the fact, the Education Center opened as part of the Southwestern Community College . In front of it is a memorial to the victims, consisting of 21 hexagonal marble columns of various sizes.

In 1985, director Mark Gilhuis filmed the rampage in Bloody Wednesday . The death metal band Macabre wrote a song about the event with “McMassacre”.

The Japanese traditional doom metal band Church of Misery also wrote a song about the crime with "Shotgun Boogie (James Oliver Huberty)".

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