On October 16, 1991, unemployed merchant seaman George "Jo Jo" Hennard committed what was at the time the largest mass murder in U.S. history at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, when he shot to death 23 people and wounded 20 others before taking his own life 13 minutes after his rampage began. The Luby's massacre is still America's third-largest mass shooting ever and the largest non-school mass shooting in American history.
A Loner
But why? What would drive a person to do something so appalling? And what kind of man was George Hennard
The answer to that would be a very disturbed, deeply troubled man, according to many who knew him, although nobody felt he had the potential for such a crime.
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