Event

1991 Sacramento hostage crisis

4 Apr 1991 · 38.50° N, 121.43° W

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When
4 Apr 1991
Kind
Event
Coordinates
38.50° N, 121.43° W
Description
Forty people are taken hostage in Sacramento, California; six gunmen and hostages are killed.

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1991 Sacramento hostage crisis

Fatal hostage crisis in California

On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near Florin Mall for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis, six were killed: three hostages and three of the four hostage-takers.

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