Mass Murder Victims on August 1

Mass Murder Victims (22)

Mass Murder Victim60th anniversary

Kathleen Kathy Whitman

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 23 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Kathleen Frances “Kathy” Whitman, a 23-year-old white female, was tragically murdered on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. Born on July 12, 1943, in Velasco, Brazoria County, Texas, she was the only daughter of Raymond and Florence Leissner. Kathy was known…

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Margaret Whitman

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 43 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Margaret Elizabeth Whitman, a 43-year-old white female, was tragically murdered on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. Born on October 26, 1922, in Savannah, Georgia, Margaret had recently separated from her husband, Charles Adolphus Whitman Jr., just months…

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Martin Mark Gabour

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 16 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Martin Jerome Mark Gabour, a 16-year-old male of Venezuelan ethnicity, tragically lost his life on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. He was one of the 17 victims of the infamous Texas Tower Sniper, Charles Whitman, who carried out a mass shooting from the…

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Marguerite Lamport

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 45 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Marguerite Gabour Lamport, a 56-year-old woman from Austin, Texas, tragically lost her life on August 1, 1966. She was one of the victims of the infamous Texas Tower Sniper, Charles Whitman. On that fateful day, Marguerite, along with her family, was visiting…

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Edna Elizabeth Townsley

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 51 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Edna Elnora Rose Townsley, a 51-year-old white female, met a tragic end on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. She was working as a receptionist at the observation deck check-in desk at the University of Texas Tower when she became one of the victims of Charles…

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Thomas Frederick Eckman

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 18 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Thomas Frederick Eckman, an 18-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, tragically lost his life on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. He was one of the victims of the infamous University of Texas tower shooting carried out by Charles Whitman. On that fateful…

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Robert Hamilton Boyer

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 33 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Robert Hamilton Boyer, a 33-year-old mathematician from Pennsylvania, was tragically killed on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. Boyer was one of the victims of Charles Whitman's infamous shooting spree from the University of Texas clock tower. Whitman, an…

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Thomas Aquinas Ashton

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 22 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Thomas Aquinas Ashton, a 22-year-old male, was tragically killed on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. Ashton, who was born on June 1, 1944, in San Francisco, California, had grown up in Redlands, California. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of…

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Karen Griffith

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 17 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Karen Joan Griffith, a 17-year-old female student at Lanier High School in Austin, Texas, tragically lost her life on August 1, 1966. She was one of the victims of the University of Texas Tower Shooting, a horrific event that took place on the campus of the…

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Thomas Ray Karr

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 24 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Thomas Ray Karr, a 24-year-old male from Spur, Texas, was one of the 15 victims killed by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas sniper, on August 1, 1966. Karr was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and was born on July 29, 1942. He was on…

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Claudia Rutt

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Female, age 18 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Claudia Marilyn Rutt, an 18-year-old Caucasian female, tragically lost her life on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. Claudia was one of the 14 victims killed by Charles Joseph Whitman during his infamous shooting rampage from the University of Texas Tower.…

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Paul Bolton Sonntag

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 18 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Paul Bolton Sonntag, an 18-year-old male of White ethnicity, tragically lost his life on August 1, 1966, in Austin, Texas. He was a recent graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School and had been accepted to the University of Colorado for the upcoming term. At…

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Billy Paul Speed

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 24 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Billy Paul Speed, a 23-year-old male police officer with the Austin Police Department, tragically lost his life on August 1, 1966. He was born on February 22, 1943, in San Antonio, Texas. Officer Speed was a U.S. Army veteran who had served in the Vietnam War…

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Roy Dell Schmidt

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 29 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Roy Dell Henry Schmidt, a 29-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was an electrician for the City of Austin. He was born on September 18, 1936, in Manor, Texas, and was married to Nancy Rose Schmidt, with whom he had a daughter named Kimberly Dawn Schmidt.…

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Harry Walchuk

Mass murder victim of Charles Whitman

Male, age 38 · Austin, Texas

Killed Aug 1, 1966 · 60 years ago

Harry Walchuk, a 38-year-old male of European descent, was a doctoral student at the University of Texas in Austin. On August 1, 1966, he was fatally shot in the chest by Charles Whitman during the infamous University of Texas tower shooting. Walchuk had been…

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Ashley Garibay

Mass murder victim of Chad Williams

Twin Falls, Idaho

Killed Aug 1, 2026 · this year

On August 1, 2026, a vibrant 23-year-old woman's life was tragically cut short in what should have been an ordinary Saturday afternoon at a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. Ashley Garibay, a dedicated employee from Stockton, California, was…

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Dale Schultz

Mass murder victim of Chad Williams

Twin Falls, Idaho

Killed Aug 1, 2026 · this year

A journey to a family reunion on a summer afternoon turned into a scene of unimaginable tragedy for Dale George Schultz, a 66-year-old man from Salt Lake City, Utah, and his wife, Reinette. The couple had stopped at a Tesla charging station situated behind a…

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Christopher Claunch

Mass murder victim of Chad Williams

Twin Falls, Idaho

Killed Aug 1, 2026 · this year

On a summer day in Twin Falls, Idaho, the community was shattered by a senseless act of violence that claimed the life of 59-year-old Christopher Claunch. On August 1, 2026, Claunch was one of three fatalities in a mass shooting that unfolded at a newly…

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Nancy Lauretta Kelley

Mass murder victim of Michael Paul Brown

age 64 · Anaconda, Montana

Killed Aug 1, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the small town of Anaconda, Montana, the morning of August 1, 2025, was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 64-year-old Nancy Lauretta Kelley, a White female, and three others. A retired nurse who had found a second calling as a…

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Daniel Edwin Baillie

Mass murder victim of Michael Paul Brown

age 59 · Anaconda, Montana

Killed Aug 1, 2025 · 1 year ago

On a tragic Friday morning in Anaconda, Montana, the quiet of the small town was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 59-year-old Daniel Edwin Baillie, a White male, and three other community members. The incident unfolded on August 1…

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David Allen Leach

Mass murder victim of Michael Paul Brown

age 70 · Anaconda, Montana

Killed Aug 1, 2025 · 1 year ago

In the quiet town of Anaconda, Montana, the morning of August 1, 2025, was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 70-year-old David Allen Leach, a White male. Leach was a patron at the Owl Bar, a local tavern, when a gunman entered and…

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Tony Wayne Palm

Mass murder victim of Michael Paul Brown

age 74 · Anaconda, Montana

Killed Aug 1, 2025 · 1 year ago

Tony Wayne Palm, a 74-year-old White male, was a lifelong resident of Anaconda, Montana, a town where he was known for his kind and gentle nature. On the morning of August 1, 2025, his life was tragically cut short when he was shot and killed while…

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