1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings
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1982-wilkes-barre-shootings-176-6337193
title:
1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings
text:
The 1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings was a spree shooting which occurred in the United States on September 25, 1982, carried out by George Emil Banks, a former Camp Hill prison guard. Banks fatally shot 13 people in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The victims included seven children – five being his own – their mothers, some of their relatives, and one bystander. Banks' attorneys argued for the insanity defense, but, following a trial Banks was convicted of 12 counts of first-degree
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Shooting spree in Pennsylvania, United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Wilkes-Barre_shootings
date created:
2006-02-28T22:02:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:39:07Z
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