1966 Rose-Mar College of Beauty shooting
1966 mass shooting in Mesa, Arizona / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On November 12, 1966, 18-year-old Robert Benjamin Smith shot and killed five people, four women and a toddler, and injured two others at the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona, United States.[1] All seven victims had been shot and one of the victims who initially survived her wounds was stabbed in the back.[2]
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![]() Smith, pictured being escorted to his arraignment, November 12, 1966 | |
Location | Rose-Mar College of Beauty Mesa, Arizona, US |
Coordinates | 33.4078°N 111.9441°W / 33.4078; -111.9441 |
Date | November 12, 1966 (1966-11-12) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, school shooting, mass murder, stabbing |
Weapons | .22 caliber six-shooter revolver; knife |
Deaths | 5 |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Robert Benjamin Smith |
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The shooting is considered[by whom?] to be the first copycat mass shooting with Smith indicating that he had wanted to kill more than Charles Whitman, the perpetrator of the University of Texas tower shooting earlier the same year.[3]