Luby's shooting
| Luby's shooting | |
|---|---|
Location of Killeen, Texas | |
| Location | Killeen, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 31°05′37″N 97°43′26″W / 31.09361°N 97.72389°W |
| Date | October 16, 1991 12:39–12:51 p.m. |
| Target | Customers and staff at a Luby's cafeteria, particularly women; first responders |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder-suicide, shootout, femicide, vehicle ramming attack |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 24 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 27 |
| Perpetrator | George Pierre Hennard |
| Motive | Unknown (widely believed to be misogyny, others have claimed misanthropy, isolation, and rejection) |
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, George Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the restaurant before opening fire, killing 23 people and wounding 27 others. Hennard had a brief shootout with police officers in which he was seriously wounded but refused their orders to surrender and eventually killed himself.
The shooting was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, until it was surpassed in 2007 by the Virginia Tech shooting.