(Although he was labeled a "sniper" in media accounts, Whitman was never an actual Sniper or close to being one. He achieved 215 of 250 possible points on marksmanship tests, doing well when shooting rapidly over long distances as well as at moving targets. Marine and college student ĭuring Whitman's initial eighteen-month service in 19, he earned a sharpshooter's badge and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. As Whitman traveled toward Parris Island, his father, who still had not known of Whitman's enlistment, learned of his action and telephoned a branch of the federal government trying to have his son's enlistment canceled. Whitman left home on July 6, having been assigned an eighteen-month tour of duty with the Marines at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Whitman told a family friend that the catalyst for his enlistment was an incident a month earlier, in which his father had beaten him and thrown him into the family swimming pool because Whitman had come home drunk. Without telling his father beforehand, Whitman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps one month after his June 1959 graduation from high school, where he had graduated seventh in a class of 72 students. By the next month, he had saved enough money from his newspaper route to purchase a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which he used on his route.
Ann's High School in West Palm Beach, where he was regarded as a moderately popular student. On September 1, 1955, Whitman entered St. At around the same time, he began an extensive newspaper route. Whitman also became an accomplished pianist at the age of 12. He became an Eagle Scout at twelve years three months, reportedly the youngest of any Eagle Scout up to that time. Whitman joined the Boy Scouts of America at age 11. His father said of him: "Charlie could plug the eye out of a squirrel by the time he was sixteen." He regularly took them on hunting trips, and Charles became an avid hunter and accomplished marksman. Whitman's father was a firearms collector and enthusiast, who taught each of his young sons to shoot, clean, and maintain weapons. The Whitman brothers regularly attended Mass with their mother, and all three brothers served as altar boys at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Lake Worth. Margaret was a devout Roman Catholic who raised her sons in the same denomination. Whitman's academic achievements were encouraged by his parents, and any indication of failure or a lethargic attitude were met with discipline-often physical-from his father. He was extremely intelligent-an examination at the age of six revealed his IQ to be 139. Īs a boy, Whitman was described as a polite child who seldom lost his temper. He was known to be physically and emotionally abusive towards his wife and children. The marriage of Whitman's parents was marred by domestic violence Whitman's father was an admitted authoritarian who provided for his family but demanded near perfection from all of them. His wife, Margaret, was 17 years old at the time they wed. Whitman's father was raised in an orphanage in Savannah, Georgia, and described himself as a self-made man. ( née Hodges) and Charles Adolphus Whitman Jr. Ĭharles Whitman was born on June 24, 1941, in Lake Worth, Florida, the eldest of three sons born to Margaret E. Whitman killed a total of sixteen people the 16th victim died 35 years later from injuries sustained in the attack. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by Austin police officers. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. Sears model 60 semi-automatic shotgun ( 12 gauge)Ĭharles Joseph Whitman (J– August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer who became known as the " Texas Tower Sniper".16 (including one victim who died in 2001)
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