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39th year  -  N° 328                 Saturday, 23 November 2024         Antwerpen		
All Along the Watchtower
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Wednesday 19th of August 1987

37 years ago He Had a Form of Anger and Contempt for Ordinary Life



Spree killer and mass murderer Michael Robert Ryan aka The Rambo Killer commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford, Berkshire, United Kingdom.


Ryan first fatally shot his mother and 15 others with a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle M1 carbine and a Beretta 92FS in a shooting spree. The dead were: 35-year-old Susan Godfrey, his neighbours Roland and Sheila Mason, 51-year-old Kenneth Clements, Roger Brereton, George White, his neighbour Abdul Rahman Khan, his mother Dorothy Ryan, Francis Butler, Marcus Barnard, 67-year-old Douglas Wainwright, 51-year-old Eric Vardy, 22-year-old Sandra Hill, Jack and Myrtle Gibbs and 34-year-old Ian Playle.