Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting
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In the early hours on the morning of June 8, 2017, employees at a Weis Markets supermarket in Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, United States, were stocking and closing the store for the night. Shortly before 1:00 a.m., 24-year-old Randy Stair barricaded the exits of the store and proceeded to shoot and kill three of his co-workers before fatally shooting himself.[1]
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Location | Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Coordinates | 41.5291°N 75.9474°W / 41.5291; -75.9474 |
Date | June 8, 2017; 6 years ago (June 8, 2017) 12:57 a.m. – 1:01 a.m. (EDT) |
Target | Employees at Weis Markets |
Attack type | Murder-suicide, triple-murder, workplace shooting, mass shooting |
Weapons | Two pistol gripped 12-gauge Mossberg 500 pump-action shotguns |
Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | Randy Robert Stair |
Motive | Belief that he would be reborn as an animated female ghost from Danny Phantom |
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