Edmond post office shooting

A gunman opened fire inside the United States Post Office in Edmond, Oklahoma, on August 20, 1986. News 9 and ruralinfo.net both report 14 people killed, with six injured. Ruralinfo.net notes that by the end of the twentieth century the attack was most often remembered for prompting the phrase "going postal" as a general term for workplace violence.

Date
1986-08-20
People killed, not counting the perpetrator (Wikipedia table)
14
What the pin marks
Where the shooting took place, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: oklahoma, workplace, post office

Coordinates: 35.65806, -97.48

Part of Mass shootings in the United States that killed 13 or more people since 1949

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