The daughter of the deranged killer who murdered 21 people and injured 19 more at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro said if she could go back in time she would’ve killed her father before he committed the crime.
say it insane. i think what s happened is american law enforcement has got caught up in the largess of the federal government handing out department of defense or homeland security military grade equipment to local law enforcement. do they really need i mean, there are some cases, would you say, norm, where it could be nice to have them? or do you think they don t really need these military style armored vehicles, things along those lines. just no use for them at all? i think there is a time and a place. i can tell you right now, i was in the arrived in the immediate aftermath of the so-called mcdonald s massacre in san diego back in 1984. had we had an armored personnel carrier, we could have driven that vehicle up to or through the door of the mcdonald s and ended the carnage earlier.
the years. like dion terres, the other mcdonald s killer, he was an avid gun collector. and according to his wife, interviewed a year after the massacre, huberty had threatened their two daughters with weapons, but etna could not bring herself to leave her increasingly troubled husband. after he pulled that machine gun, that was zelia, and held a knife to cassandra s throat, i was going to. and a friend of mine said, who would he have if you leave him? gee, he d be all alone. then what would happen to him? one of the characteristics of mass killers is that they re isolated. they re alone. many of them have moved thousands of miles for the sake of a job, and they pick up roots in massillon, ohio like huberty did, and by the time things go sour in san ysidro, california all his support systems, his old
and it certainly wasn t him. he went after all of humanity. and evidence found in his home after the massacre indicated that hennard s murderous rampage may have been inspired by another rampage killer. james huberty, the man who killed 21 in a mcdonald s seven years before. hennard had video on huberty. hennard had visited the sight of the san ysidro massacre much as a tourist would visit a destination. some experts think that popular culture is partly to blame for this copycat phenomenon. after all, nowadays images of mass killers can be found on everything from trading cards to magazine covers to calendars and t-shirts. but criminologist james fox cautions against blaming too much on the copycat phenomenon. if james huberty didn t
marry, raise two young girls, and put down roots in his hometown. but there were signs of trouble. numerous arguments with neighbors. a police charge of disorderly conduct. someone yesterday asked me if i hated my husband. i hate the things he s done. but him, no. in this 1985 nbc interview, a year after his rampage, his wife aetna talks about james huberty s generally volatile state of mind. i told the kids i kept them away from him as much as possible. told them not to talk back, not to act up. try to keep him calm, don t agitate your father. in october 1982 the power generating plant where huberty works as a welder shuts down. he cannot find work. he moves his family to mexico, but their stay in tijuana lasts only three months. from there the hubertys move to san ysidro, california, the site of the mcdonald s massacre. he was not adapting down here, and there was nothing to