What the records say
- When
- 1969
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 40.13° N, 75.79° W
- Description
- spree shooting on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
- Date from
- year in its name
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shootings
Spree shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
On April 5, 1969, Donald Martin Lambright, son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, was traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he went on a shooting spree. Reportedly, he injured sixteen and killed four, including his wife, with an M1 carbine and a .30-caliber Marlin 336 carbine, before turning one of the rifles on himself.
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