I just watched a Behind the Music on 1984. Does anyone remember the McDonald's shooting that occurred in San Ysidro,California? Some guy went out and started shooting people in a McDonalds. I vaguely remember it.

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Was it that long ago already? I vaguely remember it also.

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Well, this is another one I don't remember. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/frown.gif Boy, oh boy!

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We're about the same age Sal..we were only in like the 4th or 5th grade when it happened. I don't think I would have remembered it if I hadn't just seen it on Behind the Music. I think I blocked it out of my memory or something. (Well, being that young, I don't think I would have ever wanted to go into a McDonalds again..)

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I was 21. I remember when that happened. Som e guy walked in to a McDonalds with a high powered rifle and opened fire. I forget most of the detail;s, though.

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Wow, so long ago.. Maybe I need to watch more TV. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Ok, so I just got more info on the shooter.His name was James Huberty and apparently had some kind of mental imbalance. Anyway, he told his wife he was going hunting, she said hunting what?..he said hunting humans, she thought he was kidding. The McDonalds was right down the street from his house, he went down there on a shooting spree before he was killed by a sniper.

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I only vaguely remeber hearing about this. But not back then when it happened.



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I remember when that happened. My Aunt lived there, and I remember her freaking out about it. Still to this day, she will not step foot inside a fast food restaurant.

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I remember this being the first high profile "random" shooting; sort of the event that lead to the tragedy at Columbine... I remember feeling less safe as a result of this incident..

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I remember this.It's really crazy that something like that was such a great tragedy and so unheard of when today this kind of thing is happening on an almost monthly basis,I guess one day people will treat these thing like there isn't anything unusual about them.These are sad,sad times indeed.

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You're right, Cultleader. I remember this incident vividly and everyone thought it was just a fluke random act of violence. Who could have known that it would turn into such a re-occurring social issue. Sad time indeed!

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I was probably either at school (Whitten Junior High), or at the (South Jackson) Boys' Club when the shooting occured.

I remember it...but I was only about 9 years old at the time so I don't remember any details.

I don't remember excatly but i know i was in mobile,al at a barber shop with mom getting a haircut whn i first heard of it.

Here's the story:

SAN YSIDRO, Calif., July 18, 1984 - An unemployed security guard armed with
three guns strode into a McDonalds's restaurant in this town on the Mexican
border today and killed 20 people and wounded 16 others before a police
sharpshooter shot him dead.

The Dead included customers at the McDonalds, several of them children, and
a number of employees.

Sgt. Robert Nunley of the police said the gunman, carrying a bag of
ammunition, had ordered those in the restaurant to lie prone. When an
employee picked up a telephone to call the police, the gunman began firing
at those on the floor. Later, he fired indiscriminately at adults and
children outside the restaurant.

"It's an absolute massacre," said Comdr. Larry K. Gore. "It's a total
disaster inside the facility."

The gunman was identified by the San Diego police as James Oliver Huberty,
41 years old, of San Ysidro. Sergeant Nunley said Mr. Huberty was married,
with two children, and had moved to San Ysidro from Ohio seven months ago.
The San Diego Police Chief, Bill Kolender, said Mr. Huberty was dismissed
from a job as a security guard at a condominium a few days ago. Mr. Kolender
said Mr. Huberty was wearing fatigue trousers and a dark shirt at the time
of the shootings. Mr. Huberty's wife, who was not immediately identified,
was being questioned by the police tonight.

The gunman apparently opened fire inside the restaurant about 4 P.M. The
police said he was armed with a semiautomatic rife, a shotgun and a pistol
and withstood a police siege for more than an hour.

The Siege did not end until a police special weapons and tactics team
arrived. The team was immediately given a "green light" to shoot the gunman,
Officer Velasquez said. A police sharpshooter, firing a rifle from the roof
of the post office next door to the restaurant, fired the shot that killed
the gunman.

Chief Kolender described the scene as a "sickening massacre," adding, "It's
the most terrible thing I've ever seen in my life, and I've been in the
business 28 years. The gunman evidently spared some of the customers inside
the restaurant. Officer Velasquez estimated that 30 people were inside the
restaurant when the shooting began. "It's was terrible," said one of the
survivors, a McDonald's employee. "If anybody moved, he just shot them."