What the records say
- When
- 1976
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 27.46° S, 153.02° E
- Description
- mass shooting in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia
- Date from
- year in its name
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
1976 Spring Hill shooting
Mass shooting in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia
On 22 September 1976, a mass shooting and hostage crisis occurred on Boundary Street in Spring Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 36-year-old William Robert Wilson killed two people and wounded four others at random before taking five hostages. He surrendered to police after an hours-long standoff and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980.
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