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UT Tower Shooting



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Victims
7/24/2006 5:00 AM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

List of victims (in chronological order)

1. Margaret Whitman
Charles’ mother. Stabbed to death.

2. Kathy Whitman
Charles’ 23-year-old wife. Stabbed to death while sleeping.

3. Edna Townsley
Forty-seven-year-old receptionist at the UT Tower. Whitman’s first Tower victim was shot in the reception area of the observation deck.

4. Mark Gabour
Sixteen-year-old nephew of Marguerite Lamport (fifth victim.) Gabour was visiting the Tower with family. His mother and brother were critically injured, and his father and uncle were not.

5. Marguerite Lamport
Visiting Austin from San Antonio with family. She and her nephew, Mark Gabour, died instantly.

6. Unborn child of a woman eight months' pregnant

7. Thomas Eckman
Was shot while trying to help his wounded girlfriend, Claire Wilson, who was eight months' pregnant when Whitman shot her in the hip area and killed the unborn child.

8. Robert Hamilton Boyer
UT math professor. Stopped by campus on his way out of town when he was shot in the back.

9. Thomas Ashton
Twenty-two-year-old Californian about to go teach English in Iran. Shot in the chest.

10. David Gunby
Electrical engineering major, 23. Wounds left him with lifelong kidney problems. When he died in 2001, the cause of death was listed as homicide.

11. Karen Griffin
Student at Lanier High School, where Kathy Whitman taught. She died one week later at Brackenridge Hospital.

12. Thomas Karr
Twenty-four-year-old student attending UT for the summer and an ex-serviceman like Whitman. Shot in the back.

13. Officer Billy Speed
Twenty-three-year-old colleague of Austin police officers McCoy and Martinez. Shot in the chest trying to take down Whitman.

14. Harry Walchuk
Age 38. Ph.D. student at UT and father of six. He had walked to Guadalupe (the Drag) from the library to buy a magazine when he was shot.

15. Paul Sonntag
Austin High School graduate, age 18, hanging out on the Drag with his girlfriend, Claudia Rutt. Planned to attend college in Colorado. Shot in the mouth.

16. Claudia Rutt
Austin High School graduate, age 18, who planned to attend Texas Christian University. Shot in the left side of her chest.

17. Roy Dell Schmidt
Twenty-nine-year-old city of Austin electrician. Shot in the abdomen 500 yards away from the Tower.

Wounded
1. Allen, John Scott
2. Ehlke, Roland
3. Esparza, Avelino
4. Evganides, Ellen
5. Harvey, Nancy
6. Garbour, Mary Frances
7. Garcia, Irma
8. Heard, Robert
9. Hernandez, Alex
10. Hohmann, Morris
11. Huffman, Devereau Matlin
12. Kelley, Homer
13. Khashab, Abdul
14. Littlefield, Adrian
15. Littlefield, Brenda
16. Martinez, Della
17. Martinez, Marina
18. Mattson, David
19. Ortega, Delores
20. Paulos, Janet
21. Phillips, Lana
22. Royvela, Oscar
23. Snowden, Billy
24. Wilson, Claire
25. Wilson, Sandra (no relation to Claire)
26. Wheeler, Carla Sue

Source: Lavergne, Gary. "A Sniper in the Tower."



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