What the records say
- When
- 14 Sep 1989
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 9
- Coordinates
- 38.25° N, 85.76° W
- Description
- 1989 mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Injured
- 12
Standard Gravure shooting
1989 mass shooting in Kentucky, US
The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph Thomas Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. The shooting is the deadliest incident of workplace violence in Kentucky's history as well as the deadliest mass shooting.
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