Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead and wounded another 15 with two 9mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolvers before killing himself. The dead were 5-year-old Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale, 5-year-old Emma Elizabeth Crozier, 5-year-old Melissa Helen Currie, 5-year-old Charlotte Louise Dunn, 5-year-old Kevin Allan Hasell, 5-year-old Ross William Irvine, 5-year-old David Charles Kerr, 5-year-old Mhairi Isabel MacBeath, 45-year-old teacher Gwen Mayor, 6-year-old Brett McKinnon, 5-year-old Abigail Joanne McLennan, 5-year-old Emily Morton, 5-year-old Sophie Jane Lockwood North, 5-year-old John Petrie, 5-year-old Joanna Caroline Ross, 5-year-old Hannah Louise Scott and 5-year-old Megan Turner. (13 March 1996)
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Bedford Gaol
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.
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