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The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin.The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper".On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people.
Box office. $101,987 [1] Tower is a 2016 American mostly- animated documentary film about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin directed and produced by Keith Maitland. [2] The film follows the shooting from the perspectives of several survivors, recreating their recounts via actors filmed and later animated in rotoscoping. [3]
The film is based on the true story of Charles Joseph Whitman, an engineering student and former Marine who murdered his wife and mother and then killed 14 more people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage at the University of Texas at Austin on the afternoon of August 1, 1966.
Following the outlet mall shooting in Allen, Texas that took the lives of 8 victims, videos of the violent massacre and the aftermath spread on Twitter.
Ramiro Martinez (police officer) Ramiro "Ray" Martinez (born January 20, 1937) is a former Austin Police Department officer whose actions contributed to the ending of the University of Texas tower shootings when he, two other officers and a deputized civilian reached and killed sniper Charles Whitman on August 1, 1966.
Multiple people, including children as young as eight, have been wounded in a mass shooting at an unofficial homecoming event close to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU).. According to the Waller ...
Austin, Texas 18 [note 2] 31 49: News cameras University of Texas tower shooting: A man murdered his wife and mother before entering his university where he killed three and wounded two inside. He then perched himself on top of the university and opened fire on the people below, killing a further twelve and injuring twenty-nine before being ...