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Bookmark or Share- The Story of the First Mass Shooting in U.S. HistoryHoward Unruh, a war veteran, killed 13 people by shooting from a window down into a crowded street. Police forced him out of the apartment with tear gas. © Bettmann/CORBIS
- Mass Shooting (Camden 1949) - Encyclopedia of Greater PhiladelphiaOn September 6, 1949 in Camden, New Jersey, World War II veteran Howard Unruh murdered thirteen people in America's first recorded mass shooting.
- Howard Unruh - WikipediaHoward Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer [note 1] who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949 [5] in an incident that became known as the Walk of Death.
- N.J. man who killed 13 in 1949 dies at 88 - NBC NewsHoward Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people in Camden, N.J. during a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the worst U.S. mass murder at the time, dies Monday at 88.
- A WWII veteran became America's first mass shooter in 1949 - USA TODAYUnruh, who spent three years in an armored artillery unit in Europe during WWII, was subsisting on veterans’ assistance and by selling his model trains, he told police.
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