2020 Williamsburg massacre

When

8 Dec 2020

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

6

Coordinates

37.99° N, 80.51° W

Description

incident of mass murder and arson

Familicide in West Virginia, U.S.

On December 8, 2020, in Williamsburg, West Virginia, United States, 25-year-old Oreanna Myers shot and killed five children, aged between one and seven, with a shotgun before setting her house on fire and committing suicide. Myers was the biological mother of three of the children, and the stepmother of the other two. It is the worst mass shooting in West Virginia history alongside the rampage of Mark Storm in 1997.

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