1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shootings
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On April 5, 1969, Donald Martin Lambright, son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, was traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he went on a shooting spree. Reportedly, he injured sixteen and killed four, including his wife, with an M1 carbine and a .30-caliber Marlin 336 carbine, before turning one of the rifles on himself.[2][3][4]
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Location | Pennsylvania Turnpike (East of Harrisburg), U.S. |
Coordinates | 40.1298°N 75.7914°W / 40.1298; -75.7914 |
Date | April 5, 1969 (1969-04-05) 10:17 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (EST) |
Attack type | Spree shooting |
Weapon | M1 carbine Marlin 336 .30-caliber carbine |
Deaths | 5 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 16[1] |
Perpetrator | Donald Martin Lambright |
The shooting was officially ruled a murder-suicide, but the account of the circumstances upon which the ruling was based was questioned by Lambright's daughter and discussed at length in her 2005 self-published book about Stepin Fetchit. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Lincoln Perry stated his belief that his son was set up. Lambright's involvement with the Black Power movement at the peak of the COINTELPRO program was believed to be related to his death.[5]