It seemed a petty grievance, but it was also a turning point.? As soon as he saw the missing gate, just installed that day, he knew that his life would change.? He had to take action now, no matter what the cost.? Hed been plotting revenge for at least two years and now it was time to act on his preconceived plan.
Dressing up in a brown tropical-worsted suit, white shirt, and striped bow tie, the slender six-foot recluse picked up his 9-mm. German Luger and went outside. It was Tuesday, September 6, around 9:20 a.m.? His mother had just left, so she was out of the way.? He could have taken any number of guns from his collection, but he favored the Luger.? Just in case, he also grabbed a six-inch knife and a tear gas pen with six shells.
Vaulting over a fence, he cut through some back streets and then stepped out into the road.? A map drawn for the Philadelphia Inquirer that evening, which identified the shooter as the crazed man and the maniac, marks where this otherwise quiet World War II veteran went.? (The exact sequence of the events that day differs from one newspaper to the next, but they all end up with the same result.)
The lean and quiet man was about to make history. He would become ?? Americas first single-episode mass murderer.
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