List of rampage killers (other incidents in the United States)

This section of the list of rampage killers (other incidents) contains those cases that occurred in United States.

This section of the list of rampage killers contains mass murders by single perpetrators that do not fit into the upper categories, like Arson fires, Poisonings, Bombings, deliberate airliner crashes and train derailments caused by sabotage. Cases with more than one offender are not included.

A rampage killer has been defined as follows:

A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.[1]

This list should contain every case with at least one of the following features:

• Rampage killings with 6 or more dead
• Rampage killings with at least 4 people killed and least ten victims overall (dead plus injured)
• Rampage killings with at least 2 people killed and least 12 victims overall (dead plus injured)
• An incidence of rampage killing shall not be included in this list if it does not include at least two people killed.
• In all cases the perpetrator is not counted among those killed or injured.

Rampage killers

	Name	Date	Year	Location	State	Killed	Injured	W	Additional notes	Ref.
1.	McVeigh, Timothy James, 26	19 April	1995	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	168–169	680+	E	Sentenced to death and executed for the Oklahoma City bombing Killed 3 unborn children
2.	Segee, Robert Dale, 14	6 July	1944	Hartford, Connecticut	Connecticut	167–169	412–682	A	Confessed to causing the Hartford circus fire; later recanted
3.	Unknown, 10	1 Dec	1958	Chicago	Illinois	95	100	A	Confessed to causing the Our Lady of the Angels School fire; later recanted
4.	González, Julio, 35	25 March	1990	New York City	New York	87	6	A	Sentenced to life imprisonment for causing the Happy Land fire
5.	Doty, Thomas G., 34	22 May	1962	Unionville, Missouri	Missouri	44	0	E	Committed suicide
6.	Graham, Jack Gilbert, 23	1 Nov	1955	Denver	Colorado	44	0	E	Sentenced to death and executed for the bombing of United Airlines Flight 629
7.	Epperly, Elnora, 22	7 Jan	1950	Davenport, Iowa	Iowa	41	24	A	Found mentally unfit to stand trial	[2]
8.	Unknown	16 Sep	1920	Manhattan	New York	38	700+	E	Unsolved
9.	Frank, Julian Andrew, 32	6 Jan	1960	Bolivia, North Carolina	North Carolina	33	0	E	Committed suicide
10.	Unknown	24 June	1973	New Orleans	Louisiana	32	15	A	Unsolved
11.	Unknown	12 Aug	1939	Harney	Nevada	24	121	V	Unsolved
12.	de la Torre, Humberto Diaz, 19	4 Sep	1982	Los Angeles	California	24	32	A	Sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms	[3]
13.	Unknown, 21	30 Jan	1976	Chicago	Illinois	23	17+	A	Arrested	[4]
14.	McNamara, James B.	1 Oct	1910	Los Angeles	California	21	100+	E	Sentenced to life imprisonment for the Los Angeles Times bombing
15.	Unknown	17 April	2013	West, Texas	Texas	15	160–200	A	Unsolved	[5]
16.	Pattan, Stan,	9–11 Jul.	1957	Mendocino National Forest	California	15	?	A	Arrested
17.	Unknown	9 Aug	1894	Lincoln, Nebraska	Nebraska.	11	?	V	Unsolved
18.	Unknown	26 Nov	1978	Greece, New York	New York	10	34	A	Unsolved
19.	Unknown	29–30 Sep.	1982	Chicago	Illinois	7	0	P	Unsolved
20.	Unknown	10 Oct	1933	Chesterton, Indiana	Indiana	7	0	E	Unsolved
21.	Fowler, Rickie Lee,	21 Oct. – 2 Nov	2003	San Bernardino Mountains	California	6	?	A	Sentenced to death for causing the Old Fire
22.	Orgeron, Paul Harold, 49[n 1]	15 Sep	1959	Houston	Texas	5	19	E	Killed by the explosion	[6]
23.	Unknown	18 Sept. – 9 Oct	2001	Washington, D.C. West Palm Beach, Florida New York City	Washington, D.C. Florida New York	5	17	P	Unsolved
24.	Oyler, Raymond Lee,	26 Oct. – 1 Nov	2006	Cabazon, California	California	5	12	A	Sentenced to death for causing the Esperanza Fire
25.	Unknown, 15	23–27 Oct.	1978	Los Angeles	California	3	50	A	Imprisoned until his 21st birthday

Abbreviations and footnotes

1. At least one of the victims was a relative of the assailant.

W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders

A – arson

V – a vehicle

E – explosives

P – poison or poisonous gas

References

1. Seeger, Thorsten (ed.) School Shootings: International Research, Case Studies, and Concepts for Prevention; Springer, 2012.
3. Los Angeles apartment fire kills 18 people, Kingman Daily Miner (5 September 1982)
   – Man denies setting fatal fire, Eugene Register-Guard (28 December 1982)
   – Hotel arsonist sentenced, The Bulletin (28 June 1985)
4. Begin civil action against woman in fire, Southeast Missourian (3 February 1976)
5. Town in shock over news that Texas fertilizer-plant explosion was deliberate, CNN (12 May 2016)
6. "Poe school coverage detailed a tragedy". Retrieved 24 November 2017.