13 O’Clock Episode 531: The San Ysidro McDonald’s Massacre
On July 18, 1984, one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history unfolded at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, a community near the Mexican border in San Diego, California. Forty-one-year-old James Oliver Huberty, an unemployed security guard with a history of troubling behavior, entered the crowded restaurant armed with an Uzi semiautomatic carbine, a shotgun, and a handgun. Over the next 77 minutes, Huberty indiscriminately fired at customers, employees, and people outside the restaurant, killing 21 people, including children, and wounding 19 others. Police surrounded…
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