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Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
List of assassinated people from Turkey; List of British police officers killed in the line of duty; List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland) List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty; List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty; List of Singapore police officers killed in the line ...
Killed people out of personal hostility; also raped two young girls; sentenced to life imprisonment. [151] Jeong Nam-gyu South Korea: 2004–2006 14 14 Kidnapped, raped and murdered people; killed himself. [152] Amir Qayyum Pakistan: 2005 14 14 Known as "The brick killer". Killed 14 homeless men with rocks or bricks when they were asleep.
Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting: A man shot and killed four people–two Israeli, one French, and one Belgian–at the Jewish Museum of Belgium. The gunman fled and was arrested six days later in Marseilles, France. The Islamic State took responsibility for the attack. The gunman had attempted to film the shooting with a chest-mounted camera ...
This is a list of mass or spree killers. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills two or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales in 2021/22 was the highest on record for 76 years. Around four in 10 homicides were committed using a knife or sharp instrument in the ...
Cascade Mall shooting: A man killed five people at the Cascade Mall. He was arrested a day later. The shooter later killed himself while in jail. [156] August 20, 2016: Citronelle, Alabama: 6 [n 16] 0 6: 2016 Citronelle homicides: A man killed six people (including an unborn child) while they were sleeping in a home. He was arrested by police.
People wondered who he was. MELANIE LEROY, 29, a cousin: Bryan and I were 11 months apart. He was a social butterfly. I was a nerdy girl in school. It was like I was on a special vacation when I visited him. I went from nerdy high-school kid to in with the popular kids when I came to town. Bryan was one of those kids that could have been prom king.