What the records say
- When
- 8 Dec 1987
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 9
- Coordinates
- 37.81° S, 144.96° E
- Description
- 1987 spree-killing in Melbourne, Australia
- Injured
- 5
Queen Street massacre
1987 spree-killing in Melbourne, Australia
The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria, when 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic, a former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with an illegally modified M1 carbine, killing eight and injuring five.
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