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The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder which occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman , indiscriminately fired at members of the public both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.
Corpus Christi, Texas. / 27.74278°N 97.40194°W / 27.74278; -97.40194. Corpus Christi ( / ˌkɔːrpəs ˈkrɪsti / KOR-pəs KRIS-tee; Latin for ' Body of Christ ') is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County [ 5] with portions extending into Aransas ...
The University of Texas at Austin was originally conceived in 1827 under an article in the Constitución de Coahuila y Texas to open a public university in the state of Texas. The Constitution of 1876 also called for the creation of a "university of the first class." Thus, they created "The University of Texas."
Capital murder. Criminal penalty. Death (August 21, 2002) Steven Michael Woods Jr. (April 17, 1980 – September 13, 2011) [1] was an American who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas. [2] Woods was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of the capital murders of Ronald Whitehead, 21, and Bethena Brosz, 19, on May 2 ...
The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah ...
June 11, 2020 (aged 46) Austin, Texas, U.S. Cause of death. COVID-19. Known for. Controversy surrounding his death. Michael Hickson, aged 46, died on June 11, 2020, after being denied care for COVID-19 by doctors at South Austin Medical Center over his wife's objections. [1] Hickson was a quadriplegic. [2]
e. Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson; December 18, 1964), better known by his ring name " Stone Cold " Steve Austin, is an American media personality, actor, producer and retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he was integral to the development and success of the World ...
[4]: 166 After a doctor stitched his face, the mayor of Austin sent a police officer as escort, at Shillady's request, [5]: 10 and he and his attackers accompanied him to the train station and remained until he got on the next train north, to St. Louis. He was warned not to get off the train in Texas.