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And it certainly wasn't him. he went after all of humanity. >> and evidence found in his home after the massacre indicated that hennard's murderous rampage may have been inspired by another rampage killer. james huberty, the man who killed 21 in a mcdonald's 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. after all, nowadays images of mass killers can be found on everything from trading cards to mag...

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, i'm 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 he'd still come back shooting at you, and you'd think, damn, why don't you go down? >> he quickly exits the restaurant to reload. as he is crawling back, a shot ring...

Hate kind of built up in him. and that's one reason i just didn't want to be around him anymore. you know. i felt bad. i felt like -- you know, because everybody -- he'd 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 seaman's papers are confiscated by the coast guard. he will not serve on any ship again, a loss from which some feel he never recovers. >> people said that his mood lightened and he was at his happiest going to sea and being a sailor. qui...

>> 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 was just -- you know, that satisfied him. he was constantly busy. >> jamie dunlap meets hennard in ...

And it was just like he paused for just a minute. our eyes just locked on each other, and it's like the messages were just going back and forth. >> the communication is silent, but for jane the silence speaks volumes. >> you're not going to hurt my girls. you're 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 luby's. and for ten minutes wages war on petrified patrons. when we come back -- >> he was coming towards me at that point. and it was a...