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And it certainly wasnt him. he went after all of humanity. >> and evidence found in his home after the massacre indicated that hennards murderous rampage may have been inspired by another rampage killer. james huberty, the man who killed 21 in a mcdonalds seven years before. >> hennard had video on huberty. hennard had visited the sight of the san ysidro massacre much as a tourist would visit a destination. >> some experts think that popular culture is partly to blame for this copycat phenomenon...

Hear them moaning and groaning. >> a gun battle breaks out between hennard and police officers. >> he would stick his head out every once in a while and fire a round at us. we would fire back. still hollering at him to put the gun down, to give himself up. he would still say, "no, im killing more people." >> morris fires 15 rounds, wounding hennard before he runs out of ammunition. >> after you hit him once and saw him flinch and hed still come back shooting at you, and youd think, damn, why don...

Hate kind of built up in him. and thats one reason i just didnt want to be around him anymore. you know. i felt bad. i felt like -- you know, because everybody -- hed always talked about how everybody -- what did he say? abandoned him. >> on may 11th, 1989, returning from a long trip at sea, hennard is arrested for smoking marijuana on board a ship and his seamans papers are confiscated by the coast guard. he will not serve on any ship again, a loss from which some feel he never recovers. >> peo...

>> he acted like he had the power. and he did. and he had the control and he could take his time and do what he needed to do and there was nobody going to stop him. >> but who was this gun-wielding madman? george hennard grew up on u.s. army bases in the southwest. after a brief stint in the navy hennard is at loose ends when he is not recommended for re-enlistment. so he turns to the merchant marine. the work offers long hours and endless travel. >> most of it was cleaning and detailing. and it...

And it was just like he paused for just a minute. our eyes just locked on each other, and its like the messages were just going back and forth. >> the communication is silent, but for jane the silence speaks volumes. >> youre not going to hurt my girls. youre going to have to go through me first. and he was telling me that he might have to. >> shortly after this confrontation with jane bug, hennard crashes his pickup truck through the plate glass window of lubys. and for ten minutes wages war on...

Beginning of the end. >> two years and one day later, he would crash into lubys, open fire on 100 innocent people, and become instantly notorious. but sisters jana jurnigan and jill fritz were barely aware of the george hennard who lived on the big house on the corner down the road from them in belton, texas, not far away from the site of the massacre he was to perpetrate months later. hennard had been watching the sisters, his obsession with the young women prompting him to write them a five-pa...

He goes on. "i will no matter what prevail over the female vipers in those two rinky-dink towns in texas. i will prevail in the bitter end." for the next four months, hennard and jane lock horns in a bitter standoff over the two young women. >> hennard would peer in the windows of jane bugs house. she couldnt prove it, but would find piles of cigarette butts. like someone had been standing out there all night. hennard was a heavy smoker. hennard would follow them downtown to shopping. to the ban...

Turned back around and started shooting at us as we were running out. >> evelyn and betty also seize upon the now open window as their chance for escape. >> he shot at us as we was going out the window. but like i told evelyn, i said well have to run fast. i said im afraid hell shoot us in the back. but i said id much rather him shoot me in the back than come around, look me in the face and call me a name, then shoot me in the face or the heart. >> still hiding under the table, mary has a strang...

Exist, hennard would still have a murderous personality and would have gone on a rampage. >> coming up, rampage killers coming up, rampage killers who break the mold. >> women who commit mass murder, they tend to be psychotic and suffering from mental illness. felennnc ]re fl regener

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