
The 5:33 Massacre: Colin Ferguson and the Long Island Rail Road Shooting
On the evening of December 7, 1993, a routine Long Island Rail Road commute turned into three minutes of pure terror. Colin Ferguson rose from his seat, drew a 9mm Ruger, and methodically opened fire on his fellow passengers. Six people were killed. Nineteen more were wounded. Host Alexander Lawson reconstructs the chilling attack, the handwritten notes of rage found in Ferguson’s pockets, the passengers who stopped him, and the bizarre trial in which the gunman represented himself and claimed someone else pulled the trigger. A story of paranoia, violence, and a courtroom spectacle that still…
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