r/masskillers

May he rest in peace.

PS: (My personal thoughts) I've noticed that Filipinos, especially on Facebook, REALLY suck at memorializing victims of the recent local school shootings (this includes the Tacloban school shooting). I'd see FB posts paying respect to the victims WHILE displaying pictures of them laying dead, sometimes not even with the pic blurred out. Even our own news reports do this, it was especially egregious with the Tacloban shooting with them constantly showing a blurry picture of 2 bodies on top of each other (that of Chris Lorenz Fabian and Joyancee Separa).

Also in both this shooting and the Tacloban shooting, both perpetrators had police relatives who they stole the guns from.

To this day, it remains the second deadliest mass shooting in the United Kingdom’s history, behind the Dunblane massacre in 1996. This event was the catalyst for tightening gun laws in the UK, leading to a ban on semiautomatic and pump action centrefire long guns.

No motive for the killings was ever established.

The pictures, in order are:

1)One of the few known photos of Michael Ryan
2)His house burning down after he committed arson
3)The three guns used in the massacre, those being: a Norinco Type 56S semi automatic rifle, a M1 semi automatic carbine, and a Beretta 92 semi automatic pistol.

They were seconds away from tragedy. Police officers in Siedlce prevented a gas explosion.

The swift response, decisiveness, and professionalism of police officers from Siedlce averted a potential tragedy in a multi-family residential building in the city. An intoxicated 65-year-old man had opened the valve on a gas cylinder and was attempting to cause an explosion while holding a lighter. Officers from the Patrol and Intervention Division of the Siedlce Municipal Police Headquarters—acting despite the immediate risk to their own lives and safety—rapidly subdued the man. Thirty-eight people were evacuated from the building.

On Saturday, August 8, at approximately 3:30 PM, the duty officer at the Siedlce police station received a report from a 46-year-old woman regarding a domestic dispute. The information indicated that her 65-year-old husband, who was under the influence of alcohol, had started an argument; when the woman stepped outside, he refused to let her back into the apartment.

Officers from the Patrol and Intervention Division were dispatched to the scene. They attempted to persuade the man to open the door, but the 65-year-old steadfastly refused. The situation escalated rapidly when the man threatened to turn on the gas and cause an explosion.

Due to the genuine threat to the residents' lives, the State Fire Service was summoned. A decision was made to evacuate the three-story apartment building, and 38 people were led to safety.

Given the mounting danger, a decision was made to force entry into the apartment. After breaching the door, the officers immediately detected a strong smell of gas. The gas cylinder valve was open, and inside was a 65-year-old man holding a lighter he was trying to ignite.

There was no time to hesitate. The police officer instantly moved toward the man, subdued him, and took away the lighter. The officer’s decisive action thwarted the 65-year-old’s intent and prevented a tragedy that could have had catastrophic consequences for many people.

The officers acted with the awareness that they were in an area where gas was leaking and that the man holding the ignition source could trigger an explosion at any moment. Despite the immediate threat to their own lives, the officers’ priority was to neutralize the danger as quickly as possible and ensure the safety of the residents.

An emergency medical team was also dispatched to the scene. The 65-year-old man was transported to the hospital under police escort.

This intervention demonstrates the immense importance of composure, professionalism, accurate threat assessment, and the ability to make split-second decisions during a crisis. Operating in conditions of immediate danger, the officers not only successfully subdued the man but, above all, averted a threat to the lives and health of the building's many residents.

Police service often requires entering areas from which others are being evacuated. That Saturday afternoon, police officers from Siedlce - risking their own lives and safety - did exactly what the situation demanded: they took decisive action before a tragedy could occur.

Source: https://mazowiecka.policja.gov.pl/ra/aktualnosci/aktualnosci/136891,Sekundy-dzielily-ich-od-tragedii-Siedleccy-policjanci-zapobiegli-wybuchowi-gazu.html

Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on September 28, 1995, State of Mexico Judicial Police officer Ernesto Cruz Jiménez opened fire on passengers at the La Raza station on Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. Cruz Jiménez was detained by an unarmed officer while attempting to flee the scene. The shooting initially left seven people wounded; a 50-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man later died in the hospital from their injuries. Cruz Jiménez later stated, "I did it because of the economic crisis; no one deserves to live through what we are living through," attributing his actions to his financial problems and emotional distress caused by the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. On April 27, 1998, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Reclusorio Norte.

1st photo is with Israel adesanya, 2nd Anderson Silva, 3rd Tony Ferguson.

On May 18, 2026, a shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, California, United States. Two teenage gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Liam Vazquez, fatally shot a security guard and two community members outside the mosque before fleeing. Subsequently, they shot at a landscaper in a drive-by shooting and committed suicide in a nearby neighborhood.

This was from the museum I used to work at

Elnora Epperly - one of the worst mass murderers in American history and one of the most prolific female murderers as well. Location: Davenport Iowa. Date: January 7, 1950 - “St. Elizabeth‘s Hospital Fire”

Elnora Epperly was born on November 2, 1927. She would later marry a man named John Epperly. Elnora would display distressing signs and was diagnosed with schizophrenia I believe. She was committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a location that treated mentally ill women.

On the night of January 7, 1950, a fire broke out in the hospital that caused panic in the city of Davenport. Firefighters rushed to the scene to help battle the flames. A firefighter recounted remembering a patient screaming for help as the fire soon spread. After the fire was stopped, they went in to see the damage. 40 patients succumbed to fire as well as a nurse who tried to help the patients.

That evening John Epperly reluctantly called police to tell of his wife’s confession. She was the one who set the fire. She had pestered him to tell authorities she was the arsonist. Elnora had a habit of confessing to things she didn’t even do and her husband brushed this confession off. But Elnora persisted and he finally called. Elnora was brought in and was soon charged with 41 counts of first degree murder and faced the death penalty by hanging. As police interviewed her, she immediately shut down - an odd thing to do if she was adamant she set the fire. Police tried to question John about Elnora‘s confession, but she threatened to divorce him if he spoke a word of what she said. Nevertheless the confession was told: On the night of the fire, Elnora’s paranoia had gotten to her. She believed her husband was being attacked and needed to save him. Earlier the John had given Elnora his lighter so when the nurses allowed the patients to smoke, she could. She had hidden the lighter from the nurses view and smuggled it back in her room. She torched the curtains in her room to get the attention of nurses so they could free her. It worked as one went in to allow Elnora to get out. Elnora bolted the second the door was open and made a run for, cutting herself in the process.

Police were still skeptical, and the went to the crime scene to see if what she was saying was true. The police found out where the fire started was from Elnora’s room. They later found the glass she cut herself on with her blood on it. Laying in the rubble of the hospital, they found the lighter - It was initialed “John Epperly”. Their findings did confirm, Elnora was the one who set the fire.

Elnora was facing a trial, but the judge ruled her incompetent to stand trial, and admitted her in a mental hospital. They kept the evidence in case she was found competent to stand trial.

It is unknown what happened to her in the mean time, but finding her obituary, she had at least one child with John and multiple grandchildren. It was said she loved to garden, play with her grandchildren, and watch Politics on television. She died on February 29, 2016.

Her case is fascinating but when viewed, it can be polarizing. Even though she had schizophrenia and paranoia, it appeared she knew how wrong her actions were setting the fire by threatening to divorce her husband. She knew right from wrong when she did this. Her case is similar to that of Roger Kingsley Dean - uncaring to those who may be affected by her actions and caring about herself. She is the reckless mass murderer.

The fire is the worst act of mass murder in the history of Iowa as well as the 10th worst mass murder in American history. It is also one of the largest loss of female life in American history. Elnora is also one of the few deadly mass murderers to face some type of Justice - a potential trial. Only Julio Gonzalez, Jack Gilbert Graham, Andrew Zimmer, and Patrick Crusius along with her are the only few who face the consequences of their actions. She also got away with the crime as well, as it appeared she was released from the mental hospital and got to have a family later on in her life.

What are your thoughts on this?

Photos: Elnora Epperly - Elnora being walked away by her husband - an elderly Elnora.

Perpetrator live spreed his crime on social media

Edit: The father of the suspect is a Customs Police Chief in Zamboanga, he has been relieved because of this incident.