Camden Shootings
Time: Tuesday Sep 6, 1949
Place: Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
Details: Howard Barton Unruh was an American mass murderer (sometimes classified as a spree killer) who shot and killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death".
‹ Earlier in historyThe Soviet Union's atomic bomb projectMonday Aug 29, 1949 Later in history ›Armstrong soloed in SNJFriday Sep 9, 1949
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