1976 Spring Hill shooting
Mass shooting in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 22 September 1976, a mass shooting and hostage crisis occurred on Boundary Street in Spring Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 36-year-old William Robert Wilson killed two people and wounded four others at random before taking five hostages. He surrendered to police after an hours-long standoff and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980.
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1976 Spring Hill shooting | |
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Location | Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia |
Date | 22 September 1976; 47 years ago (1976-09-22) 12:30 p.m. ā 4:15 p.m. (AEST; UTC+10:00) |
Target | Random people |
Attack type | Mass shooting, hostage crisis |
Weapons | .22-calibre semi-automatic rifle |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrator | William Robert Wilson |
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