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Unruh returned to his apartment and engaged in a standoff. Over 60 police surrounded his home and a shootout ensued, in which he surrendered. The victims were 27-year old John Joseph Pilarchik, 6-year-old Orris Martin Smith, 33-year-old Clark Hoover, 45-year-old James Hutton, 38-year-old Rose Cohen, 63-year-old Minnie Cohen, 39-year-old Maurice J. Cohen, 24-year-old Alvin Day, 2-year-old Thomas Hamilton, 28-year-old Helga Kautzach Zegrino, 37-year-old Helen Wilson, 68-year-old Emma Matlack and 9-year-old John Wilson. Unruh's last public words, made during an interview with a psychologist, were "I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."
(6 September 1949)

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