Wayne Lo
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Wayne Lo (born 1974 in Taiwan) killed 2 and wounded 4 people in a college schooting on December 14, 1992.
Lo's family immigrated to the US in 1987, settling in Billings, Montana. In 1991, Wayne Lo was accepted by Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA and given the W.E.B. DuBoise minority scholarship. Wayne Lo's conservative views were deemed racist, homophobic and anti-semitic by fellow students at Simon's Rock, leading Wayne Lo and his friends to be outcasted.
[edit] Criminal Act
On December 14, 1992, Wayne Lo committed one the the first deadly school shootings of the 1990's. He gunned down a professor- Nacunan Saez, a fellow student- Galen Gibson, and wounded a security guard- Teresa Beavers, and 3 other fellow students- Thomas McElderry, Joshua Faber, and Mather David.
Wayne Lo ordered and received ammunition from a mail order arms company and purchased a SKS carbine the very day of the shooting at a sporting goods store in Pittsfield, MA. Although statements were made accusing Wayne Lo of being a racist, homophobic and anti-semitic bigot he was never charged with a hate crime violation. Wayne Lo was convicted and sentenced to 2 consecutive 1st degree life sentences without possibility of parole in 1994, after his insanity plea defense failed.
[edit] Documentation
In 1999, Gregory Gibson, the father of Galen Gibson, wrote and published "Gone Boy - A Walkabout". A detailed book recounting the shooting. The book spurred correspondence between Wayne Lo and Mr. Gibson.
A New York Times article (NY Times April 12, 2000) as well as a documentary film Running Amok by Georg Stefan Troller (German TV 2001) was made detailing the event.
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| NAME | Lo, Wayne |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | committed one the first deadly school shootings of the 1990's |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taiwan |
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