University of Texas tower shooting
A gunman fired on people across the campus of the University of Texas at Austin from the main tower on the morning of August 1, 1966. Fox 7 Austin reports 16 people killed, including an unborn child, and 31 injured.
- Date
- 1966-08-01
- People killed, not counting the perpetrator (Wikipedia table)
- 15
- What the pin marks
- Where the shooting took place, as the cited page positions it.
- Where the position is published
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: university, texas, austin
Coordinates: 30.28611, -97.73944
Part of Mass shootings in the United States that killed 13 or more people since 1949
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