Waddell Buddhist temple shooting
| Waddell Buddhist temple shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Waddell, Arizona, U.S. |
| Date | August 9–10, 1991 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, robbery |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 9 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrators | Johnathan Doody and Allesandro Garcia |
| Motive | Robbery |
In the early hours of August 10, 1991, a mass shooting occurred at Thai Buddhist temple Wat Promkunaram (Thai: วัดพรหมคุณาราม; RTGS: Wat Phrom Khunaram) in Waddell, Arizona, killing nine people. At the time, this was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history, until it was paralleled by the Charleston church shooting in 2015, which also killed nine people, and then superseded by the Sutherland Springs church shooting in Texas in 2017. As of 2024, it is the deadliest mass shooting in Arizona history.